#93: The Doyen Of Economics Podcasting On Death, Lockdown, And The Art Of Socratic Dialogue – Russ Roberts
Russ Roberts is an economist and the host of EconTalk.
Show notes
Selected links
- Follow Russ Roberts: Website | Twitter
- EconTalk
- Macroeconomic Patterns and Stories, by Ed Leamer
- Fooled By Randomness, by Nassim Taleb
- Systemic Risk of Pandemic Via Novel Pathogens — Coronavirus’, paper by Joe Norman, Yaneer Bar-Yam, and Nassim Taleb
- ‘To philosophize is to learn how to die’, essay by Montaigne
- How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life, by Russ Roberts
Topics discussed
- When and how did EconTalk begin? 8:55
- Has interviewing over 750 people made Russ a better or more effective person? 13:59
- How to really understand an idea. 32:00
- What has Russ learned from Nassim Taleb? 35:43
- The Precautionary Principle. 42:03
- The lockdown dilemma. 48:38
- The Precautionary Principle again. 1:11:52
- Is Russ afraid of death? 1:18:49
- What has Russ done to improve his craft as an interviewer? 1:27:18
- Where was Russ born and what did his parents do? 1:48:21
- Why did Russ study economics? 1:49:52
- Narrative economics. 1:51:13
- Who are the most important economists for non-economists to know? 1:57:12
- How does Russ think about what he does? 2:02:31
- Vipassana meditation. 2:06:26
- When would Russ recommend economics as an undergraduate degree? 2:17:18
- Adam Smith’s distinction between being loved and being lovely. 2:21:14