Can a Phone Be a Cow? (with Philip Auerswald)

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. It is May twenty sixth. twenty twenty six. And before introducing today's guest, I want to let listeners know They won't be doing an Econ Talk Book Club around the Iliad.

By Homer. First episode with Ido Havroni of Shalem College, who's been teaching the Iliad for over a decade. Well air July sixth. It will provide some useful context on the book to help you get started. And I hope inspire you to read it. Additional episodes, I don't know how many

Well air in the weeks to follow. At least one, maybe two. And we'll be using the Fagel's translation, but there are many others to choose from. And now for today's guest, economist and author Philip Arswald of George Based University. Philip was last here in September of twenty seventeen talking about populism.

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