Since 2006, economist Russ Roberts – the John and Jean De Nault Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution – has hosted the podcast EconTalk, a weekly deep conversation with economists and thinkers from other disciplines on ideas related both directly and indirectly to economics and the economic way of thinking.

Economics is a powerful analytic tool which can empower us to choose more wisely as both individuals and groups. Such tools, however, should not be confused as either ends in themselves or the measure of human values.

Religion is, like economics, embedded in the fabric of life itself. Its neglect, and the neglect of other humanistic values in the face of unprecedented prosperity, poses new challenges to animate our lives of affluence with purpose.

Acton’s Dan Hugger talks with Russ Roberts about the intersection of faith and economics, and how Roberts’ own Jewish faith has influenced his life and work.

On Ronald Coase: Human Sacrifice and the Digital Business Model

Paul Heyne’s ‘Limitations of the Economic Way of Thinking

Russ Roberts’ videos

EconTalk podcast

Gambling with Other People’s Money: How Perverse Incentives Caused the Financial Crisis

David Foster Wallace 2005 Commencement Address at Kenyon College (transcript)

David Foster Wallace 2005 Commencement Address at Kenyon College (audio)