The Music and Magic of John and Paul (with Ian Leslie)

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 econalk.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 is March eleventh, twenty twenty five, and my guest is author Ian Leslie. His sub stack is the Ruffian. This is Ian's fourth appearance on Econ Talk. He was last year in January of twenty twenty three.

Talking about being human in the age of AI. His latest book and the subject of today's conversation is John and Paul. A love story and songs in Welcome back to Econ Talk. Hi, Russ. It is great to be back. Now this is an extraordinary book.

Um I want listeners in you, Ian, to know a little bit about my how what I bring t when I Read this book, what I brought to the book. I have to say I don't read books like this. I'm not a fan of the Beatles.

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