Over the last ten years I’ve listened to a ludicrous 600 hours of ​EconTalk​ episodes.

It’s an
incredible podcast, maybe the best ever in my view.

Don’t have 600 hours to catch up on the back catalogue?

Fair enough. I love the show, but not every episode is a winner.

But how about 75 hours of the best episodes?

Over the years a number of people have asked me to make a list. So that’s what I’ve done
below.

If you want to learn economics and a tonne about how the world works, you could do worse
than to get all these episodes and work through them.

Leave comments with your suggestions if you think I’ve missed a great one!

(P.S. To get the old ones you need to subscribe to their archive feeds for previous years:
● 2006: For ​iTunes​. Or, add ​this feed​.
● 2007: For ​iTunes​. Or, add ​this feed​.
● 2008: For ​iTunes​. Or, add ​this feed​.
● 2009: For ​iTunes​. Or, add ​this feed​.
● 2010: For ​iTunes​. Or, add ​this feed​.
● 2011: For ​iTunes​. Or, add ​this feed​.
● 2012: For ​iTunes​. Or, add ​this feed​.
● 2013: For ​iTunes​. Or, add ​this feed​.
● 2014: For ​iTunes​. Or, add ​this feed​.)

The Top 10

1. O'Donohoe on Potato Chips and Salty Snacks

2. Laudan on the History of Food and Cuisine
3. Hitchens on Orwell
4. Weingast on Violence, Power and a Theory of Nearly Everything
5. Flyvbjerg on Megaprojects
6. Tetlock on Superforecasting
7. Piketty on Inequality and Capital in the 21st Century
8. Bueno de Mesquita on the Spoils of War
9. Munger on Exchange, Exploitation and Euvoluntary Transactions
10. Gregory on Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin
(You may be able to import these ten by putting this address into your podcasting app:
https://dl.getdropbox.com/s/hjdlhtv6xtklhxv/econtalk-wiblin.xml​)

The Next Best 65

11. McWhorter on the Evolution of Language and Words on the Move

12. Pritchett on Poverty, Growth, and Experiments
13. Bloom on Empathy
14. Borjas on Immigration and We Wanted Workers
15. Blattman on Sweatshops
16. Roth on Matching Markets
17. Munger on Slavery and Racism
18. Levin on The Fractured Republic
19. Lusk on Food, Technology, and Unnaturally Delicious
20. Smith on Whether Economics is a Science
21. Rosenberg on the Kidney Market in Iran
22. Jerven on African Economic Growth
23. Weitzman on Climate Change
24. O'Hare on Art Museums
25. Munger on Choosing in Groups
26. Tabarrok on Private Cities
27. Greene on Moral Tribes, Moral Dilemmas, and Utilitarianism
28. Oster on Infant Mortality
29. Zingales on Incentives and the Potential Capture of Economists by Special Interests
30. Athey on Machine Learning, Big Data, and Causation
31. Levin on Burke, Paine, and the Great Debate
32. Caplan on College, Signaling and Human Capital
33. Sachs on the Millennium Villages Project
34. Velasquez-Manoff on Autoimmune Disease, Parasites, and Complexity
35. Weingast on the Violence Trap
36. Clemens on Aid, Migration, and Poverty
37. Manzi on the Oregon Medicaid Study, Experimental Evidence, and Causality
38. Kling on the Three Languages of Politics
39. Schneier on Power, the Internet, and Security
40. Glaeser on Cities
41. Admati on Bank Regulation and the Bankers' New Clothes
42. Jerven on Measuring African Poverty and Progress
43. Cochrane on Health Care
44. Nosek on Truth, Science, and Academic Incentives
45. Scott Atlas on American Health Care
46. Zingales on Capitalism and Crony Capitalism
47. Acemoglu on Why Nations Fail
48. Fama on Finance
49. Avent on Cities, Urban Regulations, and Growth
50. Admati on Financial Regulation
51. Easterly on Benevolent Autocrats and Growth
52. Caplan on Parenting
53. Rodrik on Globalization, Development, and Employment
54. Acemoglu on Inequality and the Financial Crisis
55. Hanson on the Technological Singularity
56. Abdallah on Hair and Running a Small Business
57. Quiggin on Zombie Economics
58. Leamer on the State of Econometrics
59. Romer on Charter Cities
60. Reinhart on Financial Crises
61. Sumner on Monetary Policy
62. Posner on the Financial Crisis
63. Graham on Start-ups, Innovation, and Creativity
64. Acemoglu on the Financial Crisis
65. Friedman on Seasteading
66. Shiller on Housing and Bubbles
67. Barro on Disasters
68. Bueno de Mesquita on Iran and Threats to U.S. Security
69. Munger on Fair Trade and Free Trade
70. Gordon on Ants, Humans, the Division of Labor and Emergent Order
71. Boudreaux on the Economics of "Buy Local"
72. Hanson on Health
73. Munger on Price Gouging
74. Thaler on Libertarian Paternalism
75. Epstein on the Economics of Organ Donations