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104: Russ Roberts on How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life and the Theory of Moral Sentiments

104: Russ Roberts on How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life and the Theory of Moral Sentiments

FromEconomic Rockstar


104: Russ Roberts on How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life and the Theory of Moral Sentiments

FromEconomic Rockstar

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Length:
61 minutes
Released:
Sep 22, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Russ Roberts is Associate Editor, founder and host of the popular and much loved podcast EconTalk, and founding advisory board member of the Library of Economics and Liberty. Russ is the John and Jean De Nault Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. His two rap videos on the ideas of John Maynard Keynes and F.A. Hayek, created with filmmaker John Papola, have had more than eight million views on YouTube. Russ’ latest book How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness takes the lessons from Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments and applies them to modern life. Russ is also the author of three economic novels teaching economic lessons and ideas through fiction. The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity, The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance and The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism. Russ blogs at CafeHayek.com and archives his work at russroberts.info. Check out the links, books and resources mentioned by Russ at www.economicrockstar.com/russroberts  
Released:
Sep 22, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

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