1. Russell David "Russ" Roberts was born on September 19,1954 and is an American-born Israeli economist.
11 Facts About Russ Roberts
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Russ Roberts is a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and president of Shalem College in Jerusalem.
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Russ Roberts is known for communicating economic ideas in understandable terms as host of the EconTalk podcast.
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Russ Roberts 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.
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Russ Roberts was appointed the third president of Shalem College in November 2020, a position he assumed in March 2021.
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Russ Roberts writes and publishes videos on economics, some of which have millions of views.
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Russ Roberts has hosted the weekly economics podcast EconTalk since March 2006.
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Russ Roberts has interviewed people such as Patrick Collison, Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen, Sam Harris and Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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In 2008, Russ Roberts released another novel, The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity, which focuses on the experiences of Ramon Fernandez, a university student and star tennis player who, as a child, accompanied his mother to the US after she fled from Fidel Castro's Cuba.
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In 2014, Russ Roberts offered an uncommon perspective on Adam Smith in his book, How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness.
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Russ Roberts has urged those who formulate public policy and the economists who advise them to be more skeptical of the findings of empirical studies, and he views ultra-specific claims by politicians that their promoted policies will produce a certain number of jobs or a certain amount of growth as inherently unreliable.