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 Juli 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 Juli 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 Juni 202057min
Ashley Mears on Status and Beauty
Ashley Mears is a former fashion model turned academic sociologist, and her book Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit is one of Tyler's favorites of the year. The boo...
3 Juni 20201h 1min
Paul Romer on a Culture of Science and Working Hard
Paul Romer makes his second appearance to discuss the failings of economics, how his mass testing plan for COVID-19 would work, what aspects of epidemiology concern him, how the FDA is slowing a bette...
20 Maj 202059min
Adam Tooze on our Financial Past and Future
Adam Tooze is best known for his highly-regarded books on the economic history of Nazi Germany, the remaking of the global economic and political order starting in World War I, and his account of how ...
6 Maj 20201h 5min
Glen Weyl on Fighting COVID-19 and the Role of the Academic Expert
Glen Weyl is an economist, researcher, and founder of RadicalXChange. He recently co-authored a paper that sets forth an ambitious strategy to respond to the crisis and mitigate long-term damage to th...
29 Apr 202055min
Philip E. Tetlock on Forecasting and Foraging as a Fox
Accuracy is only one of the things we want from forecasters, says Philip Tetlock, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction. P...
22 Apr 202054min
