The Case for Sunshine (with Rowan Jacobsen)

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 econ.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 May eighteenth, twenty twenty six, and my guest is author Rowan Jacobson. It was last here in Octor of Tony Twenty One. Talking about his book Truffle Hound.

That episode tied for first place in our annual poll of favorite episodes of the year. His latest book is In Defense of Sunlight The Surprising Science. Of sun exposure. Run welcome back to Econ Talk. Thanks, sir. It's great to be back. I hope I get another first place this year. We'll see. Yeah, we'll see. You might have to rig the voting like you did the last multiple times. Yeah. Um we're gonna be talking about a number of uh

Issues related to health. I want to remind listeners we do not Dispense medical advice on this show. Even though I am a doctor, I'm not the kind that helps people, as we all know. I'm a doctor of of philosophy and economics.

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