Economics & Philosophy
EconTalk
Book density tier 1 Β· 62 episodes processed Β· 139 books cited
Hosted by Russ Roberts. Most episodes revolve around a central book written by the guest or a classic philosophical/economic text.
- Primal Intelligence
- Radetzky March
- A Movable Feast
- If This Is a Man
- Gravity and Grace
- Passions and the Interests
- Life and Fate
- Collective Edge
- Anointed
- Food Intelligence
- The Philosophy of Right
- The Savage Landscape
- The Perfect Tuba
- Wild Problems
- Flourish
- The Mind-body Problem
- Kubla Khan
- Violent Saviors
- Solo Golf
- Man Who Would Be King
- Thicker Than Water : History, Secrets and Guilt
- The Social Contract
- Invictus
- On Settler Colonialism
- Circles of Compensation
Melting Point : Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised LandRachel Cockerell
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- Arrogant Ape
- The Status Game
- The Magic Mountain
Episodes with book citations
Quotes play from the book pages; full videos are linked here.
- 2026-10-26How Your Situation Shapes You (with Angela Duckworth)5 citations
- 2026-10-26The Great Fertility Collapse (with Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde) 10/12/261 citationWatch full episode β
- 2026-10-19Lives Wasted and Well-Lived: David Wolpe on The Death of Ivan Ilyich4 citations
- 2026-10-12Public Choice and Politics Without Romance (with Mike Munger) 9/28/264 citationsWatch full episode β
- 2026-10-05Addiction, Faith, and the Limits of Willpower (with Meghan O'Gieblyn)3 citations
- 2026-10-05The Death of Reading (with James Marriott) 9/21/264 citationsWatch full episode β
- 2026-09-28Incentives Are for Losers (with Adam Mastroianni)2 citationsWatch full episode β
- 2026-09-14Hamas and the Future of Gaza (with Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib) 8/31/261 citationWatch full episode β
- 2026-08-31The Hidden Cause of the Industrial Revolution (with Ben Southwood) 8/17/261 citationWatch full episode β
- 2026-08-24Are We Alone? Cosmic Loneliness and the Longing to Believe (with Adam Kirsch)3 citations
- 2026-08-24Ben Sasse on Faith, Family, and Facing Death 5/10/21 citationWatch full episode β
- 2026-08-10Savage Landscapes (with Cal Flyn) 7/27/263 citationsWatch full episode β
- 2026-08-03Dwayne Betts on the Iliad 7/20/265 citationsWatch full episode β
- 2026-07-27Sawdust to Paw Patrol: The Spin Master Story (with Ronnen Harary) 7/13/262 citationsWatch full episode β
- 2026-07-20EconTalk Book Club on the Iliad (with Ido Hevroni) 7/6/263 citationsWatch full episode β
- 2026-06-29Do Less, Heal More: The Case for Medical Conservatism (with John Mandrola)2 citations
- 2026-06-22Can a Phone Be a Cow? (with Philip Auerswald)3 citations
- 2026-06-15The Case for Sunshine (with Rowan Jacobsen)2 citations
- 2026-06-08The Self, the Crowd, and Social Contagion (with Luke Burgis)1 citation
- 2026-06-01Making Your 80,000 Hours Count (with Benjamin Todd)2 citations
- 2026-05-25Facing Death (with Sebastian Junger)4 citations
- 2026-05-18Tom Cruise's Body of Work (with Aled Maclean-Jones)2 citations
- 2026-05-11Thinking Inside the Box (with David Epstein)7 citations
- 2026-05-04Golfing Alone (with Gary Belsky)1 citation
- 2026-04-27Claude, War, and the State of the Republic (with Dean Ball)1 citation
- 2026-04-20Adam Smith's Warning About Wealth, Fame, and Status (with Ross Levine)3 citations
- 2026-04-13The Man Who Built NVIDIA (with Stephen Witt)1 citation
- 2026-04-06The Unseen Work: Stewart Brand on Maintenance and Civilization3 citations
- 2026-03-30AI, Employment, and Education (with Tyler Cowen)2 citations
- 2026-03-23The Match That Lit the Flame: Hannah Senesh and the Creation of Modern Israel (with Matti Friedman)2 citations
- 2026-03-16The Economics of Scarcity and the UNC-Duke Basketball Game (with Michael Munger)1 citation
- 2026-03-09How We Tamed Ourselves and Invented Good and Evil (with Hanno Sauer)2 citations
- 2026-03-02The Power of Introverts (with Susan Cain)2 citations
- 2026-02-23The Man Who Would Be King of Saudi Arabia (with Karen Elliott House)1 citation
- 2026-02-16Seiko, Swatch, and the Swiss Watch Industry (with Aled Maclean-Jones)3 citations
- 2026-02-02How to Flourish (with Daniel Coyle)5 citations
- 2026-01-26Zionism, the Melting Pot, and the Galveston Project (with Rachel Cockerell)6 citations
- 2026-01-19Nature, Nurture, and Identical Twins (with David Bessis)3 citations
- 2026-01-12The Mattering Instinct (with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein)4 citations
- 2026-01-05Conversation, Interintellect, and Arcadia (with Anna Gat)6 citations
- 2025-12-29In Defense of Intuition (with Gerd Gigerenzer)7 citations
- 2025-12-22David Deutsch on the Pattern2 citations
- 2025-12-15Free Will Is Real (with Kevin Mitchell)2 citations
- 2025-12-08Colonialism, Slavery, and Foreign Aid (with William Easterly)2 citations
- 2025-12-01The Perfect Tuba: How Band, Grit, and Community Build a Better Life (with Sam Quinones)2 citations
- 2025-11-24The Status Game (with Will Storr)5 citations
- 2025-11-17The Wonder of the Emergent Mind (with Gaurav Suri)4 citations
- 2025-11-10Shampoo, Property Rights, and Civilization (with Anthony Gill)3 citations
- 2025-11-03Primal Intelligence (with Angus Fletcher)2 citations
- 2025-10-27A Mind-Blowing Way of Looking at Math (with David Bessis)1 citation
- 2025-10-20Twenty Years of Freakonomics (with Stephen Dubner)3 citations
- 2025-10-13The Magic of Tokyo (with Joe McReynolds)1 citation
- 2025-10-06The Invisible Hierarchies that Rule Our World (with Toby Stuart)2 citations
- 2025-09-29Eating with Intelligence (with Julia Belluz)2 citations
- 2025-09-22Steven Pinker on Common Knowledge5 citations
- 2025-09-08How Teams Succeed (with Colin Fisher)2 citations
- 2025-09-01Humans Are Overrated (with Christine Webb)2 citations
- 2025-08-25Hemingway, Love, and War (with David Wyatt)8 citations