Bretton Goods | 4 September 2023 | 1h 07m | Listen Later |
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Interview with Tyler Cowen discussing why there are so few Singaporean famous people, what Singapore can do to get weirder, why he’s sceptical of an AI-driven singularity, what happens to kids and public intellectuals in a post-GPT world, and why he’s optimistic on Kenyan economic growth.
Tag: Economics
Celebrating Marginal Revolution’s 20th Anniversary
Conversations with Tyler | 23 August 2023 | 0h 58m | Listen Later |
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Interview with Alex Tabarrok and Tyler Cowen on the 20th anniversary of Marginal Revolution. Discusses MR’s legacy, including the golden age of blogging in the mid-2000s, the decline of independent blogs and the rise of social media, the robust community—and even marriage—forged through MR, favorite commenters, how MR catalyzed separate real-world pandemic responses by each of them, what’s happened to Tyrone, whether the site’s popularity has tempted them into self-censoring, and more.
Alex Tabarrok on Innovation
EconTalk | 26 December 2011 | 1h 08m | Listen Later |
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Interview with Alex Tabarrok about his book Launching the Innovation Renaissance. Argues that innovation in the United States is being held back by patent law, the legal system, and immigration policies. Suggests how this might be improved to create a better climate for innovation, leading to higher productivity, and a higher standard of living.
See another 50 posts on innovation.
Outside the Box: The History and Future of Globalization
Peoples & Things | 21 August 2023 | 1h 02m | Listen Later |
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Interview with Marc Levinson about his book Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas. Traces the history of globalization from the early 19th century to the present and shows how its nature has shifted over time. Argues that the most recent form of globalization, focused on moving stuff around the globe, has been in decline since the 2008 financial crisis and that a new form of globalization, focused on moving people, services, and ideas, may be emerging.
See also the interview with Marc Levinson about his earlier book Box.
Revolutionary Technology & the Coming Economic Boom ft. Mark P. Mills
Top Traders Unplugged | 9 August 2023 | 1h 00m | Listen Later |
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Interview with Mark Mills about his book The Cloud Revolution: How The Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020’s. Argues that advances on three fronts – information, machines and materials – are converging to propel a surge in economic growth and productivity.
Preparing for a De-Globalized World ft. Rana Foroohar
Top Traders Unplugged | 29 March 2023 | 1h 00m | Listen Later |
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Interview with Rana Foroohar about her book Homecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World. Discusses the need for a localized economy to find a balance between the power of big government and large corporations. Explores how a prosperous, localized economy can be created by retethering wealth and place. Shares stories of people and organisations solving challenges with big food, manufacturing and construction using additive manufacturing, localized production, and digital innovation.
Understanding the Gender Wage Gap feat. Claudia Goldin
unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc | 26 July 2023 | 0h 57m | Listen Later |
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Interview with Claudia Goldin about her book Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity. Discusses the history of the gender wage gap, how women’s place in the workforce has shifted over time, and what steps employers can take toward true pay and gender equity.
Ninety-Eight Years of Economic Wisdom
People I (Mostly) Admire | 24 June 2023 | 0h 54m | Listen Later |
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Interview with Robert Solow about his life and work. Discusses cracking German codes in World War II, economic growth, why it’s so hard to reduce inequality, and how macroeconomics lost its way.