EconTalk

Russ Roberts
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Booking Overview

EconTalk is a long-running, award-winning economics-and-beyond interview show where Russ Roberts hosts high-profile thinkers from economics, psychology, history, philosophy, and more. It’s a strong platform for PR teams seeking credibility with an intellectually curious, evidence-driven audience and a guest experience that supports substantive, transcript-friendly discussion.

Metrics

Episodes: 1051

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 30.7k subscribers

Instagram: 166 followers

30s Ad: 2235 - 2818, 60s Ad: 2721 - 3304

Contact Form

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Host

Russ Roberts - Russ Roberts is the host of EconTalk and is associated with Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford’s Hoover Institution. He is known for probing how ideas work in the real world—using rigorous di...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Published authors; senior researchers and academics; recognized experts in economics and adjacent fields (psychology, philosophy, history, healthcare policy), often with books or major public-facing work.
Required Achievements:  
Authored influential books, Held academic or research appointments, Have public platforms (media, popular writing, notable speaking), Contributed to widely referenced scholarship or policy work

Recent Guest Discussions

Aled Maclean-Jones - Embodied Knowledge And Competence; Usefulness And Mastery In The Digital Age; Interpretation Of Skill/data; Examples Drawn From Film.

David Epstein - Creativity And Performance Within Constraints; Boundaries Vs Unlimited Freedom; Examples Tying Innovation To Structure.

Gary Belsky - Solo Golf And Flow; Physical And Mental Self-awareness; Lessons About Character And Life Through Mastery.

Recent Topics

Economics, Behavioral Science, Education, Psychology, Philosophy, History, Healthcare, Data, Consciousness, Middle East

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
EconTalk
:

Facing Death (with Sebastian Junger)

May 25, 2026

What does a lifelong atheist do when his dead father appears above him in the emergency room? Author and war reporter Sebastian Junger nearly bled to death in 2020 from a ruptured aneurysm, and what he saw in those moments sent him on a journey into physics, near-death experiences, and the nature of consciousness itself. In his third appearance on EconTalk, Junger discusses his remarkable book In My Time of Dying with host Russ Roberts. He reflects on covering wars from Sarajevo to Afghanista...

Tom Cruise's Body of Work (with Aled Maclean-Jones)

May 18, 2026

What can Tom Cruise's last impossible mission teach us about usefulness in the digital age? Aled Maclean-Jones argues that dangling from cargo planes, soldering hard drives, and skydiving nineteen consecutive times is really an extended tribute to embodied knowledge. Listen as MacLean-Jones and EconTalk's Russ Roberts analyze the unique concept of competence presented in Cruise's films. Along the way, they cover London cabbies who refuse to use Waze, a fatal dive at the sound barrier, solo sa...

Thinking Inside the Box (with David Epstein)

May 11, 2026

What do the inventor of the periodic table, the novelist Isabel Allende, and the almost-creators of the iPhone have in common? Join author David Epstein and EconTalk's Russ Roberts to explore a counterintuitive idea: that boundaries, and not unlimited freedom, often make us more creative, productive, and fulfilled.

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