Russell David "Russ" Roberts is an American-Israeli economist. He is currently a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and president of Shalem College in Jerusalem. He is known for communicating economic ideas in understandable terms as host of the EconTalk podcast.
Russ Roberts
The Hoover Institution is an American public policy think tank which promotes personal and economic liberty, free enterprise, and limited government. While the institution is formally a unit of Stanford University, it maintains an independent board of overseers and relies on its own income and donations. It is widely described as conservative, although its directors have contested the idea that it is partisan.
The Hoover Institution in May 2014
Former United States Secretary of Defense Ash Carter speaks about defense innovation at the institution in Washington, D.C. in September 2016
Former Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Rex Tillerson during a Hoover forum in January 2018
View of the Hoover Institution's headquarters, including the Hoover Tower, among the Stanford University campus