David Owen: Podcast Interviews

David Owen

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Author, Journalist

www.davidowen.net

3 Interviews

David Owen's Interviews

Keith Menconi & David Owen • 29 Nov 2019 • EN

Protecting Our Hearing in a Deafening World

The screech of the BART train, the din of restaurant conversations, the rumble pop of rock concerts: We take all this noise for granted -- it's just the soundtrack to modern life after all -- but whether we notice them or not, all these sounds add up, eventually taking a toll on our hearing and our health. In this edi

Russ Roberts & David Owen • 14 May 2012 • EN

David Owen on Parenting, Money, and the First National Bank of Dad

David Owen, author of The First National Bank of Dad, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how to educate our children about money and finance. Owen explains how he created his own savings accounts for his kids that gave them an incentive to save and other ways to teach them about postponing gratification, inves

Russ Roberts & David Owen • 13 Feb 2012 • EN

David Owen on the Environment, Unintended Consequences, and The Conundrum

David Owen of the New Yorker and author of The Conundrum talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his book. Owen argues that innovation and energy innovation have increased energy use rather than reduced it and similarly, other seemingly green changes do little to help the reduce humanity's carbon footp