Kyla Scanlon on Communicating Economic Ideas through Social Media
Kyla Scanlon has made it her personal mission to bring economics education to a larger audience through social media. She publishes daily content across TikTok, YouTube, Substack, LinkedIn and more, e...
2 Okt 20241h 5min
Tobi Lütke on Creating Shopify for Americans as a German in Canada
Tobi Lütke is the CEO and co-founder of Shopify. 20 years ago, he was just a German coder who emigrated to Canada to launch some ecommerce platform with another German. Now he's the world-renowned tho...
18 Sep 202454min
Philip Ball on the Interplay of Science, Society, and the Quest for Understanding
Register for our LA Listener Meetup Philip Ball is an award-winning science writer who has penned over 30 books on a dizzying variety of subjects. Holding degrees in chemistry from Oxford and physics ...
4 Sep 20241h 11min
Nate Silver on Risk-takers, Politicians, and Poker Players
In his second appearance, Nate Silver joins the show to cover the intersections of predictions, politics, and poker with Tyler. They tackle how coin flips solve status quo bias, gambling's origins in ...
21 Aug 202459min
Paul Bloom on the Psychology of Children, and the Morality of Empathy and Disgust
Paul Bloom is a renowned psychologist and writer specializing in moral psychology, particularly how moral thoughts and actions develop in children. But his interests and books explore a wide range of ...
7 Aug 202459min
Alan Taylor on Revolutionary Ironies and the Continental Civil War
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Alan Taylor is Tyler's pick for one of the greatest living historians. His many books cover the early American Republic, American westward expansion, the War of 1812, Vi...
24 Jul 202457min
Brian Winter on Brazil, Argentina, and the Future of Latin America
Register for the DC Listener Meetup It's not just the churrasco that made him fall in love with Brazil. Brian Winter has been studying and writing about Latin America for over 20 years. He's been trac...
10 Jul 202458min
Joseph Stiglitz on Pioneering Economic Theories, Policy Challenges, and His Intellectual Legacy
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz joined Tyler for a discussion that weaves through Joe's career and key contributions, including what he learned from giving an 8-lecture in Japan, how bei...
26 Jun 202449min
