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Russ Roberts
Born (1954-09-19) September 19, 1954 (age 70)[1][2]
Memphis, Tennessee
Academic career
School or
tradition		Chicago School, Austrian School
Alma materUniversity of Chicago (Ph.D.)
University of North Carolina (B.A.)
InfluencesGary Becker
Friedrich Hayek
Milton Friedman
Websitewww.russroberts.info

Russell David "Russ" Roberts (born September 19, 1954) is a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution[4][5] well known for communicating economics to non-economists[6] as host of the EconTalk podcast.[7]

Education

Roberts was awarded a B.A. in economics in 1975 from the University of North Carolina and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1981 for thesis on the design of government transfer programs[8][9] under the supervision of Gary Becker.[10][11]

Career

Roberts has taught at George Mason University, Washington University in St. Louis (where he was the founding director of what is now the Center for Experiential Learning), the University of Rochester, Stanford University, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a regular commentator on business and economics for National Public Radio's Morning Edition, and has written for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Roberts also blogs at Cafe Hayek[12] with Donald J. Boudreaux at George Mason University in Fairfax County, Virginia.[13] He published the novel The Invisible Heart which conveys economic ideas in the context of a narrative. In 2008, Roberts released another novel, The Price of Everything, which addresses concepts such as spontaneous order, price gouging, and market economics in crisis situations.

Publications

Books

  • The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism (1st ed.). Prentice Hall. 1994. ISBN 0-13-083008-9. OCLC 29357777.
  • The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism (3rd ed.). Prentice Hall. 2006. ISBN 0-13-143354-7. OCLC 70839758.
    • The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism. Princeton, NJ: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic. 2002. OCLC 51110966. {{cite book}}: |format= requires |url= (help)
  • The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance (1st ed.). MIT Press. 2002. ISBN 0-26-268135-8. OCLC 44413917.
  • The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity (1st ed.). Princeton University Press. 2008. ISBN 0-691-14335-8. OCLC 231587398.
  • Gambling with other people's money: how perverted incentives caused the financial crisis. Legatum Institute. 2010. ISBN 1-90-740906-8. OCLC 751698980.
  • How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness. Portfolio Hardcover. 2014. ISBN 978-1591846840. OCLC 881681030.

Articles and papers

See also

References

  1. ^ "Velasquez-Manoff on Autoimmune Disease, Parasites, and Complexity". EconTalk. Retrieved 5 March 2014. I was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1954.
  2. ^ "Birthday thoughts". EconLog. September 19, 2011. I turned 57 today
  3. ^ "Gavin Andresen on the Present and Future of Bitcoin". EconTalk. Russ: Ah, but I live in D.C., actually. I just come out to Stanford erratically. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  4. ^ Hoover Institute, Research Fellows, Russell Roberts bio
  5. ^ Russ Roberts (5 September 2012). "Joining Hoover full-time". Cafe Hayek. Retrieved 24 December 2012.
  6. ^ The Guardian "Praise of EconTalk"
  7. ^ EconTalk, hosted by Russ Roberts
  8. ^ A positive analysis of the design of government transfer programs
  9. ^ "Russ Roberts' CV" (PDF). Mercatus Center, George Mason University. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  10. ^ "Chris Anderson on Makers and Manufacturing". EconTalk. Retrieved 1 January 2013. I remember when Gary Becker, my adviser in graduate school wrote a book
  11. ^ "Gary Becker, RIP". Cafe Hayek. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
  12. ^ Cafe Hayek
  13. ^ http://economics.gmu.edu/people/rrobert2
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