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1834 - Live: Anthropic co-founder on AI and jobs
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Episodes
1834-
Live: Anthropic co-founder on AI and jobs
Listened
Wed, 22 Apr 2026
1833-
Do prediction market bettors make anything better?
Listened
Sat, 18 Apr 2026
1832-
How to get through the Strait of Hormuz
Listened
Tue, 14 Apr 2026
1831-
BOOKstore Economics
Listened
Fri, 10 Apr 2026
1830-
A pro-worker experiment in private equity
Listened
Wed, 08 Apr 2026
1829-
The simple math of the big bill
Listened
Fri, 04 Jul 2025
1828-
The potato-shaped loophole in free trade
Listened
Fri, 03 Jan 2025
1827-
Reese’s heir vs. chocolate skimpflation
Listened
Sat, 04 Apr 2026
1826-
Dark times for Cuba’s economic experiment
Listened
Thu, 02 Apr 2026
1825-
Summer School 5: The many ways governments influence industry
Listened
Wed, 06 Aug 2025
1824-
Summer School 4: Who are all these regulations protecting?
Listened
Wed, 30 Jul 2025
1823-
Summer School 3: How government decides what to spend our money on
Listened
Wed, 23 Jul 2025
1822-
Summer School 2: How taxes change behavior and the economy
Listened
Wed, 16 Jul 2025
1821-
Summer School 1: A government's role in the economy is to make us all richer
Listened
Wed, 09 Jul 2025
1820-
The U.S.-China trade war, according to game theory
Listened
Fri, 30 May 2025
1819-
How the War on Drugs got us... blueberries
Listened
Fri, 04 Apr 2025
1818-
Tariffs: What are they good for?
Listened
Wed, 02 Apr 2025
1817-
PM x Radiolab: Can the economy grow forever?
Listened
Fri, 28 Mar 2025
1816-
Worst. Tariffs. Ever. (update)
Listened
Wed, 11 Dec 2024
1815-
What markets bet President Trump will do
Listened
Sat, 09 Nov 2024
1814-
The veteran loan calamity
Listened
Fri, 01 Nov 2024
1813-
How much of your tax dollars are going to Israel and Ukraine
Listened
Fri, 29 Mar 2024
1812-
Why do doctors still use pagers?
Listened
Fri, 08 Dec 2023
1811-
Cutting school... by 20%
Listened
Thu, 26 Oct 2023
1810-
How unions are stopped before they start
Listened
Fri, 20 Oct 2023
1809-
The flight attendants of CHAOS
Listened
Wed, 04 Oct 2023
1808-
The natural disaster economist
Listened
Wed, 27 Sep 2023
1807-
A black market, a currency crisis, and a tango competition in Argentina
Listened
Sat, 23 Sep 2023
1806-
AI Podcast 3.0: Dial M for Mechanization
Listened
Fri, 02 Jun 2023
1805-
AI Podcast 2.0: The host in the machine
Listened
Wed, 31 May 2023
1804-
The battle over Osage headrights
Listened
Sat, 25 Mar 2023
1803-
How Silicon Valley Bank failed
Listened
Thu, 16 Mar 2023
1802-
Dude, where's my streaming TV show?
Listened
Sat, 11 Mar 2023
1801-
Baby's first market failure
Listened
Fri, 03 Feb 2023
1800-
The story of "Monopoly" and American capitalism
Listened
Thu, 26 Jan 2023
1799-
Spam call bounty hunter
Listened
Wed, 14 Dec 2022
1797-
The skyscrapers that NIMBYs and zoning couldn't stop
Listened
Sat, 28 Mar 2026
1796-
Our BOOK vs. the global supply chain
Listened
Thu, 26 Mar 2026
1795-
Inside a BOOK auction
Listened
Sat, 21 Mar 2026
1766-
The little pet fish that saved a town in the Amazon
Listened
Wed, 18 Mar 2026
1765-
Chef vs. Robot
Listened
Fri, 13 Mar 2026
1764-
The laws of the office revisited
Listened
Wed, 11 Mar 2026
1763-
Planet Money vs. the NBA’s tanking problem
Listened
Fri, 06 Mar 2026
1762-
The Business of Heated Rivalry
Listened
Wed, 04 Mar 2026
1761-
Don't hate the replicator, hate the game
Listened
Fri, 27 Feb 2026
1760-
The ICE hiring boom
Listened
Wed, 25 Feb 2026
1759-
The Supreme Court struck down a bunch of Trump's tariffs. Now what?