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Two Cheers for Libertarianism and Econ 101 (with Noah Smith)

Economist Noah Smith was so focused on libertarianism's theoretical flaws, he overlooked its political importance. Trump's tariff policy opened his eyes and made him re-assess the virtues of both libertarianism and Econ 101. Listen as he and EconTalk's Russ Roberts explore the way political competition has shaped economic policy in surprising ways in recent years.

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  Free Will Is Real (with Kevin Mitchell)

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  Colonialism, Slavery, and Foreign Aid (with William Easterly)

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  The Perfect Tuba: How Band, Grit, and Community Build a Better Life (with …

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  The Status Game (with Will Storr)

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  The Wonder of the Emergent Mind (with Gaurav Suri)

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  Shampoo, Property Rights, and Civilization (with Anthony Gill)

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  Primal Intelligence (with Angus Fletcher)

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  A Mind-Blowing Way of Looking at Math (with David Bessis)

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  Twenty Years of Freakonomics (with Stephen Dubner)

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  The Magic of Tokyo (with Joe McReynolds)

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  The Invisible Hierarchies that Rule Our World (with Toby Stuart)

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  Eating with Intelligence (with Julia Belluz)

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  Steven Pinker on Common Knowledge

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  How Did America Build the Arsenal of Democracy? (with Brian Potter)

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  How Teams Succeed (with Colin Fisher)

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  Humans Are Overrated (with Christine Webb)