Russ Roberts

Host, EconTalk · 1 appearance on the record.

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Russ Roberts is an economist and public intellectual best known as the creator and host of the EconTalk podcast. He is the author of books including Wild Problems and has served as a fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution.

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2 predictions · 2 opinions · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Russ argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Prediction Held up
Roberts: Taxi Industry Will Not Stop Autonomous Cars In The US
“We're going to get autonomous cars in the United States if the technology works out. I don't think the political power of the taxi cab industry is going to stop it, just like I don't think the hotels can stop Airbnb.”
Russ Roberts Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 37:21 a16z Podcast | Adjusting to Trade... and Innovation

How they sound: speaking style how? →

266 words/min while actually speaking · 4.3 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Russ Roberts: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to 2,785 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Russ Roberts is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →

Everything Russ Roberts said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Roberts: Arguing Trade Is Net Good Ignores Distributional Harm
“I think it's a bad teacher and a bad economist who says, well, trade creates net benefits, so therefore it's good for the country.”
Russ Roberts Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:30 a16z Podcast | Adjusting to Trade... and Innovation
Insight
Roberts: Trade Benefits Future Generations While Harming The Current One
“The biggest benefits from trade take place over longish periods of time. The opportunity for the next generation to come along and use its skills well, but it can be hard on this generation.”
Russ Roberts Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:20 a16z Podcast | Adjusting to Trade... and Innovation
Opinion
Roberts: Bureau Of Labor Statistics Poorly Adjusts Inflation For Product Quality
“And the Bureau of Labor Statistics isn't particularly good at adjusting for it.”
Russ Roberts Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 27:54 a16z Podcast | Adjusting to Trade... and Innovation
Prediction Held up
Roberts: Taxi Industry Will Not Stop Autonomous Cars In The US
“We're going to get autonomous cars in the United States if the technology works out. I don't think the political power of the taxi cab industry is going to stop it, just like I don't think the hotels can stop Airbnb.”
Russ Roberts Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 37:21 a16z Podcast | Adjusting to Trade... and Innovation
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Roberts: Autonomous Vehicles Will Dramatically Reduce Transportation Costs
“One of the impacts of the autonomous car introduction is a dramatic reduction in the cost of getting from here to there. So if you think about a current cab ride or Uber has a huge labor component, and it also has an insurance component, but the cost of gettin…”
Russ Roberts Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:28 a16z Podcast | Adjusting to Trade... and Innovation

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | Adjusting to Trade... and Innovation Jan 2, 2019 12m
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