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Episode 88
Matthew O. Jackson is perhaps the world’s most renowned scholar of the economics of networks; as a 2005-06 CASBS fellow, he wrote most of his still-i…
3 hours ago
The Micro-mechanisms Influencing Social Interactions
Episode 87
Human interactions occur in a variety of contexts. When interactions are marked by conflict, misunderstanding, bias, or aggression, 2024-25 CASBS fel…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
David Card: Behind the Nobel
Episode 86
In his first visit since to CASBS since his 1996-97 fellowship, UC Berkeley economist David Card lifts the veil behind the innovative empirical work …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Your Field Guide for Creating Social Change
Episode 85
Philosophers Michael Brownstein (CASBS fellow 2019-20) and Dan Kelly (2018-19), two of the coauthors of "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can…
4 months, 1 week ago
Paul Milgrom: Beyond the Nobel
Episode 84
Economist Paul Milgrom is celebrated for his Nobel Prize-winning work on auction theory and design. But he has published a wide range of other innova…
5 months, 1 week ago
In Edward Said's Shadow
Episode 83
Edward Said famously wrote most of "Orientalism" during his 1975-76 CASBS fellowship. The book criticized Western worldviews and representations of t…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Colin Camerer: Econ's Neurovisionary
Episode 82
An absorbing conversation featuring Colin Camerer (CASBS fellow, 1997-98), among the world's most accomplished scholars in both behavioral economics …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Grand Master of the Sociology of Immigration & Assimilation
Episode 81
For decades, Alejandro Portes (CASBS fellow 1980-81) has been among our most distinguished scholars elucidating the causes and consequences of immigr…
10 months ago
Can AI Take Common Sense from a Baby?
Episode 80
Generative AI tools built on large language models are increasingly "intelligent" yet lack a baby's common sense – the ability to non-verbally genera…
1 year ago
Make the Atmosphere Great Again
Episode 79
Given deeply polarized domestic politics and insufficient international commitment to the Paris Accord, can we reduce greenhouse gas emissions and av…
1 year, 1 month ago