behavior

Episode 120: The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habita

发表于 2023-11-18 dila counts frances

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Music We move between three different pieces from Camille Saint-Saens': Suite, Op. 90: II Menuet , a…

Summer School 2: How taxes change behavior and the economy

发表于 2025-07-16 planet taxes behavior

We all know the government uses taxes to pay for things. But what about using taxes to control behavior? This week on Summer School, Professor Darrick Hamilton …

An Interview with Gary Becker

发表于 2006-07-10 alfred interview becker

Russ Roberts interviews Gary Becker, of the University of Chicago, on the challenges of being an intellectual maverick, the economic approach to human behavior,…

Cass Sunstein on Worst-case Scenarios

发表于 2007-11-19 worst scenarios catastrophic

Cass Sunstein of the University of Chicago talks about the ideas in his latest book, Worst-Case Scenarios. How should individuals and societies cope with low-pr…

James Otteson on Adam Smith

发表于 2011-06-27 otteson behavior adam

James Otteson of Yeshiva University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Adam Smith. The conversation begins with a brief sketch of David Hume and his in…

David Rose on the Moral Foundations of Economic Behavior

发表于 2012-01-23 morality prosperity allows

David Rose of the University of Missouri, St. Louis and the author of The Moral Foundation of Economic Behavior talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the …

Cathy O'Neil on Wall St and Occupy Wall Street

发表于 2013-02-11 occupy cathy neil

Cathy O'Neil, data scientist and blogger at mathbabe.org, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her journey from Wall Street to Occupy Wall Street. She ta…

Vernon Smith on Adam Smith and the Human Enterprise

发表于 2014-11-17 chapman sentiments enterprise

Nobel Laureate Vernon L. Smith of Chapman University talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how Adam Smith's book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments has enriche…

Luigi Zingales on the Costs and Benefits of the Financial Sector

发表于 2015-02-02 bankers banks zingales

Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts on whether the financial sector is good for society and about the gap between …

Janet Golden on Babies Made Us Modern

发表于 2018-06-04 imperfect janet babies

Historian and author Janet Golden talks about her book, Babies Made Us Modern, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Golden chronicles the transformation of parentin…