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As a long time econtalk listener I am kind of disappointed with this week's episode. I don't feel like they really elaborated beyond "we should have permissionless innovation"

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My thoughts as well. They were basically saying that too much regulation/central planning is bad and a central authority cannot decide whether something is a good business idea, then talk for a long time about this fuzzy metaphor about dancing.

Same here. It was my first episode of econtalk. There were thought provoking points; i.e. focusing more on systemic mistakes rather than small ones as a result of permitting decision making at the local level (a la N. Taleb). However, it could've been told in 1/3rd the duration. I'll give it another go given this episode might have been one off.

I love econtalk, but there are def some duds. Usually the problem is that they just drag on with Russ and the Guest agreeing upon something.

Here are a few that I enjoyed recently:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/10/megan_mcardle_o.htm...

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/07/sally_satel_on.html

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/07/chris_blattman_2.ht...

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/06/christy_ford_ch.htm...

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/01/sam_quinones_on.htm...

Definitively don't judge Econtalk by the episodes with Mike Munger, they're more informal and less structured, since he's a friend of the host.

He’s even hosted an episode

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