Back To The Future - Tyler Cowen
Tyler Cowen is an economist and public intellectual par excellence.Show notesSelected links •Follow Tyler: Website | Twitter | Podcast | Blog •Stubborn Attachments, by Tyler Cowen •Ideal Code, Real Wo...
4 Nov 20201h 28min
A Labor Intellectual's Plan To Rebraid Our Frayed Social Fabric - Andrew Leigh
Dr Andrew Leigh MP is an economist and Federal Labor parliamentarian.Show notesSelected links •Follow Andrew: Website | Twitter •Reconnected, by Andrew Leigh and Nick Terrell •Democracy in America, Al...
19 Okt 202049min
Frauds And Visionaries - Bethany McLean
Bethany McLean is an investigative journalist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair.Show notesSelected links •Follow Bethany: Website | Twitter •The Smartest Guys in the Room, by Bethany McLean and ...
12 Okt 20201h 25min
The Rise And Fall Of Monetary Policy - Ian Macfarlane
Ian Macfarlane was Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia from 1996 to 2006.Show notesSelected links •Follow Ian: Website •The Deficit Myth, by Stephanie Kelton •Macroeconomics, by William Mitchell...
4 Okt 20201h 42min
An Ode To The Uncorrelated Thinker - Eric Weinstein
Eric Weinstein is a mathematician and the Managing Director of Thiel Capital.Show notesSelected links •Follow Eric: Website | Twitter •The Three Languages of Politics, by Arnold Kling •'Opinions and S...
28 Sep 20202h 19min
Housing Bubble Week Epilogue: Not All Bubbles Are Created Equal - Vernon Smith
Vernon Smith won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002. Show notes Selected links •Follow Vernon: Website •Rethinking Housing Bubbles, by Vernon Smith and Steven Gjerstad •'Debt Deflation: Theo...
27 Sep 20202h 24min
The Meaning Of Human Existence, And The Search For Alien Life - Avi Loeb
Avi Loeb is Chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department.Show notesSelected links •Follow Avi: Website •The Myth Of Sisyphus, by Albert Camus •The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn •'The ...
23 Sep 20202h 7min
Of Viruses And Vaccines - Peter Doherty
Peter Doherty is an immunologist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Medicine.Show notesSelected links •Follow Peter: Website | Twitter •'I'm 79, I won the Nobel Prize and I don't give a s---', AFR ...
20 Sep 20201h 20min
