Podcast list lovingly curated for our lovely AdamSmithWorks audience

We’ll start with the Great Antidote with Juliette Sellgren which run about 45 minutes, follow with Russ Robert’s EconTalk: Conversations for the Curious that usually go at least an hour, and put a bow on with the Law & Liberty podcast that seem to be between 30-45 minutes. All of these podcasts were released in 2022. 

Great Antidotes
Adam Smith said, "Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition." Host Juliette Sellgren started the podcast during the pandemic in 2019 and continues to interview experts on big issues to learn more about economics, history, philosophy, public policy, and much more.

James Otteson  on What Adam Smith Knew (44:46)

"Das Adam Smith problem," Smith's influences, his friendship and disagreements with David Hume, his dying wish for the destructions of his unfinished works, and his "labor theory of value" all get discussed.

Henry Clark on on 1776 and the French and Scottish Enlightenments (45:04)

1776 and the years surrounding it were full of ideas and actions that still matter today. Clark talks about the history leading up to 1776 and how things have changed (and not changed) since then. Clark also comes back to the podcast later in the year to talk about Montesquieu with a longer discussion of the similarities and differences between Montesquieu and Adam Smith.

Daniel Klein on Adam Smith's Justice (42.32)

Klein discusses Adam Smith’s ideas of justice (commutative, distributive, and estimative), how that relates to modern conceptions of social justice, and what should individuals do differently in their lives if they take Smith ideas about justice seriously?

EconTalk
Host Russ Roberts does talk “Econ” but also much more earning his tagline, “Conversations for the Curious.” This podcast comes out weekly and features academics, entrepreneurs, authors, and more. The archives go back to March of 2006.

   

Richard Gunderman on Greed, Adam Smith, and Leo Tolstoy (1:05:14)

Physician and careful reader Richard Gunderman of Indiana University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how Adam Smith and Leo Tolstoy looked at greed. Drawing on Tolstoy's short story, "Master and Man," and adding some Thomas Hobbes along the way, Gunderman argues that a life well-lived requires us to rise above our lower desires. Join Gunderman and Roberts for a sleigh ride into a snowy blizzard, where you won't find your way by following rules, but rather by recognizing what needs to be seen.

Raj Chetty on Economic Mobility (1:19:14)

Economist Raj Chetty of Harvard University talks about his work on economic mobility with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The focus is on Chetty's recent co-authored study in Nature where he finds that poor people in America who are only connected to other poor people do dramatically worse financially than poor people who are connected to a wider array of economic classes. The discussion includes the policy implications of this result as well as a discussion of Chetty's earlier work on the American Dream and the challenge of Americans born in recent decades to do better financially than their parents.

Diane Coyle on Cogs, Monsters, and Better Economics (1:02:49)

Mainstream economics, says author Diane Coyle, keeps treating people like cogs: self-interested, rational agents. But in the digital economy, we're less sophisticated consumer and more monster under the influence of social media. Listen as the economist and former UK Treasury advisor tells EconTalk host Russ Roberts how, for economics to remain relevant, it needs both more diverse methodologies and more engagement with the broader issues of the day.

Law & Liberty
Law & Liberty's staff members interview prominent authors and thinkers. The archives go back to 2015.

Adam Smith’s Jurisprudence (34:07)

James Otteson talks with Samuel Gregg about Adam Smith's life and some of Smith’s writings that are understudied, specifically Smith’s Lectures on Jurisprudence.

Market’s in America (48:04)
Brian Smith talks with Samuel Gregg about his new book The Next American Economy and the choice between state capitalism, essentially extensive government intervention in the economy via protectionism, industrial policy, et cetera and a choice of moving in a free market direction.

America’ Economic Crossroads (36:29)

Despite having the better economic arguments, classical liberals have failed to make the public case for free markets. Veronique De Rugy talks with host Samuel Gregg about how they can turn things around.

AND if you want to listen to some non-Liberty Fund podcasts (you know, after you’ve listened to all of these), might we humbly suggest the NEW Freakonomics Podcast on Adam Smith and you could also listen to yours truly in her first podcast ever at The Institute for Liberal Studies’ The Curious Task, “How Can Books Advance a Liberal Society?” 

Feel free to drop your own recommendation below for other episodes from Liberty Fund podcasts or anything else you think the ASW audience would enjoy.