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 Juli 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 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
