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Dani Rodrik of Harvard University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about trade, the labor market, and trade policy. Drawing on a recent paper with Margaret…

William Easterly of New York University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the oft-heard claim that poor countries led by autocrats grow faster than po…

Morten Jerven of Simon Fraser University, author of Poor Numbers, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the quality of data coming out of Africa on income…

Lant Pritchett of Harvard University and author of The Rebirth of Education talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book. Pritchett argues …

James Tooley, Professor of Education at Newcastle University, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about low-cost for-profit private schools in the slums and rur…

Should the United States allow its citizens to buy oil from countries run by bad men? Is this a case where morality trumps the usual case for free trade? Leif W…

World’s richest leaders take a rain check on annual UN climate summit

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has called for grants instead of new loans for vulnerable developing countries to combat the damage caused by climate change. He a…

Fossil fuel producers and consumers resist firm new targets or a shift away from coal, oil and gas

Canada, the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom and New Zealand were the top nations where Indians were acquiring citizenship.