Alex Ross on Music, Culture, and Criticism
To Alex Ross, good music critics must be well-rounded and have command of neighboring cultural areas. "When you're writing about opera, you're writing about literature as well as music, you're writing...
22 Sep 20201h 1min
Matt Yglesias on Why the Population is Too Damn Low
Matt Yglesias joined Tyler for a wide-ranging conversation on his vision for a bigger, less politically polarized America outlined in his new book One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger....
9 Sep 20201h 6min
Jason Furman on Productivity, Competition, and Growth
Note: This conversation was recorded in January 2020. Tyler credits Jason Furman's intellectual breadth, real-world experience, and emphasis on policy for making him the best economist in the world. F...
26 Aug 20201h 1min
Nicholas Bloom on Management, Productivity, and Scientific Progress
What might the electrification of factories teach us about how quickly we'll adapt to remote work? What gives American companies an edge over their competitors on the international stage? What value d...
12 Aug 20201h 3min
Nathan Nunn on the Paths to Development
Nathan Nunn's work history includes automotive stores, a freight company, a paint factory, a ski hill, photography, book publishing, private tutoring, and more. Having grown up in a lower-income Canad...
29 Jul 20201h 1min
Melissa Dell on the Significance of Persistence
Explaining 10 percent of something is not usually cause for celebration. And yet when it comes to economic development, where so many factors are in play—institutions, culture, geography, to name a fe...
15 Jul 20201h 3min
Annie Duke on Poker, Probabilities, and How We Make Decisions
For Annie Duke, the poker table is a perfect laboratory to study human decision-making — including her own. "It really exposes you to the way that you're thinking," she says, "how hard it is to avoid ...
1 Jul 202054min
Rachel Harmon on Policing
Long before becoming a legal scholar focused on police reform, Rachel Harmon studied engineering at MIT and graduate philosophy at LSE. "You could call it a random walk," she says, "or you could say t...
17 Jun 202057min
