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Re:Uber Makes Economists Sad by w1ntermute on Thursday July 10, 2014 @01:39PM (#8015996)
Direct link: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/07/michael_munger.html

The episode is pretty good. It's fun to listen to economists' perspective on these services after being absorbed in the tech.

Re:Uber Makes Economists Sad by tptacek on Thursday July 10, 2014 @01:44PM (#8016024)
I liked it fine, but I found the economics to be extremely predictable and the public policy analysis to be very shallow. For instance, Airbnb is to Mike Munger an unalloyed good; I found myself yelling at the car radio "but what about the mob hotels?"

You knew Roberts and Munger were going to like Uber, and, of course, they do.

Re:Uber Makes Economists Sad by w1ntermute on Thursday July 10, 2014 @03:22PM (#8016650)
I think that was to be expected, based on the fact that they are both professed libertarians. There are other episodes where the guest doesn't share Roberts' ideologies though.