EconTalk
Smash Notes has 53 notes from 6 episodes of EconTalk, hosted by Russ Roberts. Each note answers one question with the moment it was said, so you can read it or play just that part. Topics: Business, Education, Higher Education.
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Top notes
- Why Does Liberalism Require Wielding Persuasion Instead of Power?
- Why Has Congress Passed So Few Laws?
- Why Do Florida and South Dakota Keep Foreign Sugar Out?
- Why Does a United States Senator Fail to Do the Right Thing?
- Why Does Public Choice Differ From the Street View of Politics?
- Why Does Methodological Individualism Assume the Locus of Choice Is the Individual?
- Why Does Politics as Exchange Fail to Scale Beyond Small Groups?
- Why Does Government Action Fail to Represent the Will of the People?
- Why Does the Munger Test Replace the Word State With Donald Trump?
- Why Does Liberalism Require Tolerance and Humility?
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Daniel Haybron on Happiness
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Arthur Diamond on Openness to Creative Destruction
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Michael Munger on Permissionless Innovation
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