Richard Thaler: Encore presentation of Nobel Prize Conversations
Nudges, sludges, and the connection between stubbornness and success. Join us for this encore presentation of our first episode of Nobel Prize Conversations, as host Adam Smith picks the brain of Rich...
2 Nov 202233min
Andrea Ghez: Encore presentation of Nobel Prize Conversations
Meet astrophysicist Andrea Ghez, recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy." In this energy-packed conversation with ...
26 Okt 202241min
Kip Thorne: Encore presentation of Nobel Prize Conversations
What costs a billion dollars and takes 50 years to build and perfect? LIGO: A machine to detect gravitational waves. In this encore presentation of a conversation from Season 2, Kip Thorne confides, ”...
19 Okt 202237min
First reactions | Ben Bernanke, prize in economic sciences 2022 | Telephone interview
“What we’re talking about here is credit.” — In this conversation, recorded the day after the announcement from Stockholm, Ben Bernanke stresses the importance of the financial system as a critical pa...
11 Okt 202213min
First reactions | Philip Dybvig, prize in economic sciences 2022 | Telephone interview
“When I woke up I had what seemed like thousands of messages” — Philip Dybvig’s phone was on silent, so he missed the call from Stockholm. When, half asleep, he did confirm the news, he recalls that h...
10 Okt 20225min
First reactions | Douglas Diamond, prize in economic sciences 2022 | Telephone interview
“There are very few people in the world I’d rather be sitting next to when discussing these issues” — In this interview recorded just after the public announcement, Douglas Diamond, the first of the t...
10 Okt 202210min
First reactions | Oleksandra Matviychuk, Nobel Peace Prize 2022 | Telephone interview
“Common people have a much greater impact than they can even imagine” — When asked what brings her hope, Oleksandra Matviychuk replies, “Ordinary people.” Although the challenges faced might seem insu...
8 Okt 202210min
The Call from Oslo to Center for Civil Liberties, 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
"It is incredible" — Before the public announcement of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize Olav Njølstad, Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, called Oleksandra Romantsova, Executive Director of Center ...
7 Okt 20223min
