Last month, after years of you people begging us, we finally had on the great Russ Roberts—author, educator, and proprietor of the phantasmagorically influential podcast EconTalk. The extremely wide-ranging conversation, whose pre-Pivot-to-Video video is available to Never Fly Coach subscribers, one of the most could you please unpaywall this so I can share it? episodes in recent memory, and so here we are.
Russ’s drinks by the pool with Hitchens
How potato chips are made. And what it tells us about economics
Backwards towards “artisanal”
How will a NatCon economy perform?
It ain’t all doom and gloom (surprisingly)
Do academic economists matter?
Russ talks to Milton Friedman
Do long-term economic trends tells us anything??
On moving to Israel
On returning to a (relatively) calm America
Notes from Russ’s father
A TikTok war
Was Moneyball wrong? Or do people just not understand Moneyball?
The Close Encounters mashed potato mountain
And much, much more
