Ecosystems are Probably Not What You Think: A Conversation with Tom Whitham
What are ecosystems? Do they achieve some kind of balance in their natural state? Do they evolve in a way that can't be explained by the evolution of their component species? I take a deep dive with T...
17 Jul 20201h 17min
Development and the Third Way with Scott Peters
As part of TVOL's "Third Way" series of conversations, I explore the concept of "Development" as a type of cultural change effort with Scott Peters, Professor of Developmental Sociology at Cornell Uni...
9 Jul 20201h 6min
The Third Way in the Internet Age with Tim O'Reilly
Modern life has been transformed by electronic communication, starting with the telegraph and now in full force with the Internet Age. There are many blessings but also many curses associate with the ...
2 Jul 202056min
Smart Cities and the Third Way with Dan O'Brien
Urban planning represents one kind of positive change effort that has suffered from excessive reliance on laissez-faire in some instances and centralized planning in other instances. The Smart Cities ...
28 Jun 20201h 3min
Science as a Moral System with Robert T. Pennock
Science is often imagined as limited to the "facts" and deliberately set apart from "values". But the pursuit of objective reality requires its own set of values, norms, and ideal character of the ind...
23 Jun 20201h 15min
Libertarianism and the Third Way with Peter Boettke
The economic and political school of thought known as Libertarianism is most closely associated with laissez faire as a public policy prescription. George Mason University's Mercatus (which means "mar...
18 Jun 20201h 8min
Economics, Public Policy, and the Third Way with David Colander
The economics profession includes many schools of thought–some that emphasize laissez faire, others that emphasize centralized planning, with many admixtures in between. David Colander, an acute obser...
11 Jun 20201h 6min
Socialism, Capitalism, and the Third Way of National Governance with Geoffrey Hodgson
Socialism and Capitalism will be among the hot words thrown around during the 2020 US presidential elections. Geoffrey Hodgson, a great scholar of economics and the social sciences, helps me explain h...
4 Jun 202056min
