Russell Roberts is the John and Jean De Nault Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He hosts the award-winning weekly podcast EconTalk, which reaches an audience of more than one hundred thousand listeners in more than sixty-five countries. His two rap videos on Keynes and Hayek, created with filmmaker John Papola, have had more than ten million YouTube views and are used in high school and college classrooms around the world.

His poem and animated video “It’s a Wonderful Loaf” (wonderfulloaf.org) is an ode to emergent order. His series on the challenges of using data to measure economic progress, The Numbers Game, can be found at PolicyEd.org. His latest book is Gambling with Other People's Money: How Perverse Incentives Caused the Financial Crisis (Hoover Institution Press, 2019).

Other books include How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness and The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism, which was named one of the top ten books of 1994 by Business Week and one of the best books of the year by the Financial Times. Roberts holds a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago and received his undergraduate degree in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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