Robin Hanson – Russ Roberts

Robin Hanson is an economist. Russ Roberts is an interview host. We found 4 podcast interviews connecting Robin Hanson and Russ Roberts.

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Episodes with Robin Hanson & Russ Roberts

Russ Roberts & Robin Hanson 03 Jan 2011 • EN

Robin Hanson on the Technological Singularity

Robin Hanson of GMU talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the idea of a technological singularity--a sudden, large increase in the rate of growth due to technological change. Hanson argues that it is plausible that a change in technology could lead to world output doubling every two weeks rather than every 15 yea

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Russ Roberts & Robin Hanson 26 Jan 2009 • EN

Russ Roberts (and Robin Hanson) on Truth and Economics

EconTalk host Russ Roberts talks about the role of empirical evidence and bias in economics and why economists disagree. Roberts talks about how his interviews with various economists at EconTalk have forced him to reassess the role of empirical evidence in various debates in economics and economic policy. Roberts is j

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Russ Roberts & Robin Hanson 26 May 2008 • EN

Robin Hanson on Signalling

Robin Hanson of George Mason University talks about the phenomenon of signalling--the ways people spend resources to convey information about ourselves to others. It begins with Hanson revisiting his theory from an earlier podcast that we spend too much on medicine because we need to signal our concern for friends and

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Russ Roberts & Robin Hanson 28 May 2007 • EN

Robin Hanson on Health

Robin Hanson, of George Mason University, argues that health care is different, but not in the usual ways people claim. He describes a set of paradoxical empirical findings in the study of health care and tries to explain these paradoxes in a unified way. One of his arguments is that the human brain evolved in ways tha

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