Favorite EconTalk Episodes of 2024 Question Title * 1. Your Five Favorite Episodes of 2024 (no more than five, sorry!) The Power of Nuance: Lessons for Public Health (with Emily Oster) Fixing Sick Cities (with Alain Bertaud) Is This War With Lebanon Different? (with Matti Friedman) Why Industrial Policy Is (Almost) Always a Bad Idea (with Scott Sumner) Translating Life and Fate (with Robert Chandler) Tyler Cowen on Life and Fate Terrorism, Israel, and Dreams of Peace (with Haviv Rettig Gur) Who Needs Miracles? On Nature and the Miraculous (with Alan Lightman) Give Away a Kidney? Are You Crazy? (with filmmaker Penny Lane) Susan Cain on Bittersweet and the Happiness of Melancholy Why Housing Is Artificially Expensive and What Can Be Done About It (with Bryan Caplan) Misinformation and the Three Languages of Politics (with Arnold Kling) Reclaiming Tribalism (with Michael Morris) The Underrated Bruno Leoni (with Michael Munger) The Mysterious World of Owls (with Jennifer Ackerman) What Modern Medicine Gets Wrong (with Marty Makary) Is Israel Winning the War in Gaza? (with Andrew Fox) The Problems of Boys and Men in Today’s America (with Richard Reeves) Chaos and Complexity Economics (with J. Doyne Farmer) What’s Happening Inside Your Doctor’s Head and Heart (with Adam Cifu) How Do You Capture the Tragedy of War? (with Sabin Howard) The Ever-Present Challenge of Escaping Poverty (with Noah Smith) Sam Harris on Jew-Hatred, Radical Islam, and the West Does Parenting Make You a Better Person? (with Erik Hoel) Lessons from Lincoln, Then and Now (with Diana Schaub) Reading, Writing, and Fighting (with Mark Helprin) Is Israel Occupying the West Bank? (with Eugene Kontorovich) René Girard, Mimesis, and Conflict (with Cynthia Haven) Does Market Failure Justify Government Intervention? (with Michael Munger) How the Constitution Can Bring Us Together (with Yuval Levin) Injustice and the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (with Dwayne Betts) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Covid Vaccine (with Vinay Prasad) Purpose, Pleasure, and Meaning in a World Without Work (with Nicholas Bostrom) Glenn Loury Tells All Living with the Constitution (with A.J. Jacobs) Seeking Immortality (with Paul Bloom) When Prediction Is Not Enough (with Teppo Felin) Rituals Without Religion (with Michael Norton) A User’s Guide to Our Emotional Thermostat (with Adam Mastroianni) What Does “Unbiased” Mean in the Digital World? (with Megan McArdle) Voices from Gaza (with Ahmed Alkhatib) Living with Exponential Change (with Azeem Azhar) How to Avoid Lying With Statistics (with Jeremy Weber) The Secrets of Great Conversation (with Charles Duhigg) A Lively Debate on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (with Robert Wright) Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (with Hillel Cohen) Should Israel Depend on the US? (with Michael Oren) What Palestinians Are Thinking (with Dahlia Scheindlin) If Life Is Random, Is It Meaningless? (with Brian Klaas) Can a Nation Plunder Its Way to Wealth (with Noah Smith) The Challenge of Covering the Most Important Story on Earth (with Matti Friedman) From the Second Intifada to October 7th (with Daniel Gordis) Question Title * 2. How do you decide whether to listen to an episode? (You can check more than one) Name of guest Title of episode Description of the episode I listen to all of the episodes Other Question Title * 3. How often do you go to the website EconTalk.org? Every episode Almost every episode Occasionally Rarely Never Question Title * 4. How often during this past year did you access episodes and/or clips via our YouTube channel? For every episode Almost every episode Occasionally Rarely Never I did not know EconTalk has a YouTube channel. Question Title * 5. When did you start listening to EconTalk? In the last year or so In the last 2-5 years In the last 5-10 years or so From the beginning Question Title * 6. What proportion of the episodes from this past year, 2023, do you think you listened to: Less than half of them A little more than half, maybe Almost all of them All of them Question Title * 7. If you are a regular listener to EconTalk please list three podcasts that you listen to regularly: Question Title * 8. Please add any suggestions here to improve EconTalk or provide general feedback for the EconTalk team. Done
