Here are the results of the survey of your favorite episodes of 2019. We thank the many hundreds of you from you dozens of countries who responded to our survey. We;ve included links to our EconTalk Extras, which complement episodes offering questions for further thought and conversation.
Here are the Top 10. The 10th episode,
- Number 10, Chris Arnade on Dignity.
- Number 9, Rory Sutherland on Alchemy.
- Number 8, Alain Bertaud on Cities, Planning, and Order Without Design.
- Number 7, David Epstein on Mastery, Specialization, and Range.
- Number 6, Bjorn Lomborg on the Costs and Benefits of Attacking Climate Change.
- Number 5, Andrew McAfee on More From Less.
- Number 4, Tyler Cowen on Big Business.
- Number 3, Michael Munger on Crony Capitalism.
- Number 2, George Will on the Conservative Sensibility.
The Number 1 Episode, as voted by you, the listeners, for 2019 was
which 40% of you put in your top five, which might be a record.
Honorable mentions: two episodes that made the top 10 for voters who listened to every episode–special category–Stephen Kotkin on Solzhenitsyn, and Gary Greenberg on the Placebo Effect. They would have been in the top 10 if we had limited the voting to those people.