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. You SAID you wanted to share this. So share this! Pretty please? * 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 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe
