How to Walk the World (with Chris Arnade)

Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty. I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem, and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to econk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links and other information related to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econalk.org. We'd love to hear from you. Today's June eighteenth, twenty twenty five. My guest is author and photographer Chris Arnadi. His sub stack is Chris Arnadi Walks the World. He was last here in July of twenty nineteen talking about his book Dignity. Today, and it's this is his third appearance, today we're gonna talk about walking.

Which Chris does an enormous amount of. We're gonna talk about uh the differences in daily life and standard of living and aesthetics between Europe and the United States, and I'm sure other things will come up along the way. And as I mentioned in a recent episode, uh, because of the war here in Israel, I'm doing this from home. So please excuse any street noise. Chris, welcome back to Econ Talk. Um and thank you for having me. Uh let's start with walking.

Um You were walking some when the we talked the last time. You were doing a photography project. I know you've been a walker for a while. But you've become it's kinda your Day job.

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