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Benjamin Friedman on the Origins of Economic Belief
Episode 114
Benjamin Friedman has been a leading macroeconomist since the 1970s, whose accomplishments include writing 150 papers, producing more than dozen book…
5 years, 1 month ago
Noubar Afeyan on the Permission to Leap
Episode 113
"The world of innovation is very much one of toggling between survival and then thriving," says Noubar Afeyan. Co-founder of Moderna and CEO of Flags…
5 years, 2 months ago
Conversations with Tyler 2020 Retrospective
Episode 112
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On this special year-in-review episode, producer Jeff Holmes sat down with Tyler …
5 years, 2 months ago
John O. Brennan on Life in the CIA
Episode 111
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Growing up in a working-class city in New Jersey, John Brennan's father was an Ir…
5 years, 3 months ago
Zach Carter on the Life and Legacy of John Maynard Keynes
Episode 110
After reading Zach Carter's intellectual biography of Keynes earlier this year, Tyler declared that the book would qualify "without reservation" as…
5 years, 3 months ago
Jimmy Wales on Systems and Incentives
Episode 109
Jimmy Wales used to joke that choosing to build Wikipedia on a non-profit, non-advertising model was either the best or worst decision he ever made—b…
5 years, 4 months ago
Edwidge Danticat on Haitian Art and Literature
Episode 108
Edwidge Danticat left Haiti when she was 12, she says, but Haiti never left her. At 14 she began writing stories about the people and culture she lov…
5 years, 4 months ago
Michael Kremer on Economists as Founders
Episode 107
Michael Kremer is best known for his academic work researching global poverty, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2019 along with Esther Duf…
5 years, 5 months ago
Audrey Tang on the Technology of Democracy
Episode 106
Audrey Tang began reading classical works like the Shūjīng and Tao Te Ching at the age of 5 and learned the programming language Perl at the age of 1…
5 years, 5 months ago
Alex Ross on Music, Culture, and Criticism
Episode 105
To Alex Ross, good music critics must be well-rounded and have command of neighboring cultural areas. "When you're writing about opera, you're writin…
5 years, 6 months ago