Eugene Fama — For Whom Is The Market Efficient?
Eugene Fama is a 2013 Nobel laureate in economic sciences, and is widely recognised as the "father of modern finance." He is currently the Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Financ...
31 Dec 202455min
Richard Butler — Nuclear Diplomacy at the End of History
Richard Butler AC is a retired Australian diplomat. He served as Australia's first Ambassador for Disarmament (1983-1988), Australian Ambassador to the United Nations (1992-1997), and Chair of the Uni...
29 Nov 20242h 31min
Larry Summers — AGI and the Next Industrial Revolution
Larry Summers is a former US Treasury Secretary (1999-2001), Chief Economist at the World Bank (1991-1993), and Director of the National Economic Council under President Obama (2009-2010). He also ser...
21 Okt 202448min
Nassim Taleb — Meditations on Extremistan
Nassim Taleb is trader, researcher and essayist. He is the author of the Incerto, a multi-volume philosophical and practical meditation on uncertainty. Full transcript available at: https://josephnoel...
19 Sep 20242h 5min
Robert Boyd & Peter Richerson — How Ice Age Climate Chaos Made Humans Cultural Animals
Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson are anthropologists based in America. Their partnership was central to the development of Dual-Inheritance Theory, a framework that applies Darwinian evolution to cultu...
13 Aug 20242h 23min
Lucy Turnbull — Urbanism, YIMBYism, and Solutions to Australia's Housing Crisis (Bonus Live Episode)
Lucy Turnbull is an urbanist, businesswoman and philanthropist. She was the first female Lord Mayor of Sydney, from 2003-4. From 2015-20, she was the inaugural Chief Commissioner of the Greater Sydney...
30 Maj 202446min
Bryan Caplan — The Economics of Housing Abundance
Bryan Caplan is Professor of Economics at George Mason University. A bestselling author, his books include The Case Against Education, Open Borders, and Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of H...
13 Maj 20241h 50min
2023 Retrospective — A Listener Interviews Me
In this special episode, the tables are turned as I'm interviewed by a listener of the show, DJ Thornton from Sydney. We reflect on the progress of the show in 2023, what I learned from this year's gu...
29 Dec 20231h 47min
