Matt Levine Live at Bloomberg HQ
Is Matt Levine a modern-day Horace? Like Matt, Horace has a preoccupation with wealth and the law. There's a playful humor as he segues from topic to topic. An ability to read Latin. And many of Horac...
14 Helmi 20181h 6min
Charles C. Mann on Shaping Tomorrow's World and the Limits to Growth
At the beginning of their conversation, Tyler dubs Charles C. Mann a tlamatini, or 'he who knows things.' And oh, the things he knows, effortlessly weaving together, history, anthropology, economics, ...
31 Tammi 201855min
Andy Weir on the Economics of Sci-Fi and Space
Before writing a single word of his new book Artemis, Andy Weir worked out the economics of a lunar colony. Without the economics, how could the story hew to the hard sci-fi style Weir cornered the ma...
20 Joulu 201752min
Doug Irwin on US Trade Policy
Tyler thinks Douglas Irwin has just released the best history of American trade policy ever written. So for this conversation Tyler went easy on Doug, asking softball questions like: Have tariffs ever...
29 Marras 201757min
Sujatha Gidla on Being an Ant Amongst the Elephants (Live)
Sujatha Gidla was an untouchable in India, but moved to the United States at the age of 26 and is now the first Indian woman to be employed as a conductor on the New York City Subway. In her memoir An...
15 Marras 20171h 2min
Steve Teles and Brink Lindsey on *The Captured Economy*
What happens when a liberal and a libertarian get together? In the case of Steve Teles and Brink Lindsey, they write a book. And then Tyler separates them for a podcast interview about that book, pri...
1 Marras 201752min
Mary Roach on Disgust, Death, and Danger (Live at Mason)
Legal writing was never Mary Roach's thing. She describes that short-lived stint as an inscrutable "bringing forth of multisyllabic words." Instead, she's forged a career by letting curiosity lead the...
18 Loka 20171h 15min
