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Nov
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Richard Butler — Nuclear Diplomacy at the End of History (#160)
Richard Butler is a retired Australian diplomat who helped establish the framework through which we still manage nuclear weapons risks today.
Nov
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Interview Research: Episode 160 (Richard Butler)
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Nov
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Oct
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Oct
22
Larry Summers — AGI and the Next Industrial Revolution (#159)
Could AI initiate a new, much faster economic growth regime, akin to the Industrial Revolution?
Oct
20
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Oct
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Sep
20
Nassim Taleb — Meditations on Extremistan (#158)
Nassim Taleb is trader, researcher and essayist. He is the author of the Incerto, a multi-volume philosophical and practical meditation on uncertainty.
Sep
15
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Sep
01
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Aug
14
Robert Boyd & Peter Richerson — How Ice Age Climate Chaos Made Humans Cultural Animals (#157)
For the last one to two million years, the main force shaping the human lineage has not been natural selection, but the culture we've accumulated. Why us?
Jul
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May
31
Lucy Turnbull — Urbanism, YIMBYism, and Solutions to Australia's Housing Crisis (#156: Bonus Live Episode)
How can we make our cities more productive? What will it take to build more homes in Australia? Why might the YIMBY movement fail? And is Sydney better than Melbourne?
May
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May
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May
14
Bryan Caplan — The Economics of Housing Abundance (#155)
Why does housing cost so much? And could building more homes be the solution to many of society's problems?
Mar
31
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Mar
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Feb
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07
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Dec
31
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Dec
30
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.
Dec
24
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Dec
20
David Deutsch & Steven Pinker (First Ever Public Dialogue) — AGI, P(Doom), and The Enemies of Progress (#153)
With the Enlightenment under attack from multiple sides, two rational optimists come together for their first ever public dialogue.
Dec
17
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Dec
10
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Dec
03
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Nov
29
Shruti Rajagopalan — On Spotting Talent, And Making Sense of Rising India (#152)
How to understand a country as complex and heterogeneous as India? And how does Shruti think about identifying Indian talent?
Nov
26
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05
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Nov
02
Raghuram Rajan — Debt, Monetary Policy, and Unintended Consequences (#151)
What were the deep causes of the global financial crisis? Has unconventional monetary policy worked? And should monetary policy target financial stability?
Oct
22
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Oct
14
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08
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Sep
23
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Sep
20
Peter Singer — Moral Truths and Moral Secrets (#150)
Are there objective moral truths? Is Peter Singer a Straussian? And why does Australia have a higher proportion of utilitarian philosophers than other countries?
Sep
10
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Sep
03
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Sep
01
Peter Turchin — Why Societies Fall Apart (And Why the US May Be Next) (#149)
Can we have a science of history? And if we can, what does it tell us about the American trajectory?
Aug
27
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Aug
20
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Aug
19
Stephen Wolfram — Constructing the Computational Paradigm (#148)
Stephen Wolfram was a physics prodigy. But he's also built massively valuable companies and projects. What are the secrets of Wolfram the entrepreneur?
Aug
13
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Aug
06
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Aug
02
Katalin Karikó — Forging the mRNA Revolution (#147)
Katalin Karikó is a Hungarian-American biochemist. She is one of the inventors of mRNA technology.
Jul
30
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Jul
26
Richard Rhodes — The Making of the Atomic Bomb (#146)
Richard Rhodes is an American historian and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
Jul
23
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May
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May
13
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May
10
Ken Henry — An Economic Odyssey (#145)
Dr Ken Henry is an Australian economist who served as Secretary of the Australian Department of Treasury from 2001 to
May
06
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26
Palmer Luckey — Science (Non)fiction (#144)
Palmer Luckey ("the real-life Tony Stark") is an American tech entrepreneur and billionaire. He has founded two companies: Oculus VR and defence-tech company Anduril.
Apr
23
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Apr
16
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Apr
14
Daniel Kahneman — Dyads, And Other Mysteries (#143)
Daniel Kahneman is the most influential living psychologist. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 and is the author of Thinking, Fast and Slow.
Mar
26
Weekend Reading & Selected Links
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Jan
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01
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Dec
31
Talent Is That Which Is Scarce — Tyler Cowen (#142)
In the long run, talent allocation is almost everything. But as a society, we're not actually very good
Dec
24
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Dec
24
Intellectual Exoskeletons — Andy Matuschak (#141)
From language and writing to the Hindu-Arabic numeral system, computers and Adobe Photoshop, our species has a history of inventing
Dec
18
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Dec
15
Rationality And Its Opposite — Steven Pinker (#140)
How rational are we? How can a species smart enough to set foot on the moon also be prone to
Dec
04
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Nov
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Nov
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Sep
25
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Sep
20
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This edition of the newsletter is slightly delayed due to my
Aug
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Aug
08
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Aug
01
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Happy weekend! A note to American listeners of the podcast: I will be in the
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Jul
02
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Apr
25
Against Bayesianism — David Deutsch (#139)
Bayesianism, the doctrine that it's always rational to represent our beliefs in terms of probabilities, dominates the intellectual
Apr
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09
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Happy weekend! After testing the format in 2021, my weekend newsletter is
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I enjoy sharing my thoughts and finds
Jan
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A Year of Newsletters
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I sent my first weekend newsletter a little over a year ago, on December 26th,
2020. I&
Dec
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The Lessons Of Afghanistan — William Dalrymple (#138)
William Dalrymple is an acclaimed historian and writer.
Oct
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The Race That Stopped The Nation — Richard Holden & Steven Hamilton (#137)
Richard Holden is Professor of Economics at UNSW. Steven Hamilton is an Assistant Professor of Economics at The George Washington
Aug
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#136: Ergodicity — Ole Peters
Ole Peters is a physicist and a Fellow at the London Mathematical Laboratory.
Aug
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Happy weekend! And to my American friends: Happy Fourth of July weekend! Here
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Happy weekend! For the benefit of my Sydney friends who are now under lockdown
with the rest of the city,
Jun
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#135: The Tyranny Of Merit — Michael Sandel
Michael Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard University, where he is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of
Jun
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#134: The Spectre Of Havoc — Graham Allison
Graham Allison is an American political scientist and the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the
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#133: A General Theory Of Catastrophe – Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson is one of the world’s most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the
Jun
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#132: Policy In An Age Of Politics – John Hewson
John Hewson is a former Australian politician and was leader of the Liberal Party from 1990 to 1994.
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1. Orwell on Hayek
May
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#131: A Practical Guide To Coping With Uncertainty – John Kay
John Kay is one of Britain’s leading economists.
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#130: Is Science Reaching Its Limits? – John Horgan
John Horgan is a science journalist and Director of the Center for Science Writings at the Stevens Institute of Technology,
May
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May
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#129: Marvellous Melbourne And Australia's Darkest Depression – Graeme Davison
Graeme Davison is Australia’s most eminent urban historian.
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#128: A Forgotten Genius – Cheryl Misak
Cheryl Misak is a Canadian philosopher and the author of Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers.
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#127: Progress And Planet – Malcolm Turnbull
Malcolm Turnbull was the 29th Prime Minister of Australia.
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1. Paul Simon on
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Some links for you to enjoy over the weekend:
1. During the week, I spoke with Andy Lee, one half
Mar
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#126: The Craft Of Comedy And The Art Of A Lasting Partnership – Andy Lee
Andy Lee is one half of iconic Australian comedy duo Hamish & Andy.
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[Transcript coming soon.
Mar
27
14th Selected Links
Some links for your weekend perusal:
1. 'Why Y? [http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2016/12/why-y.html?m=1]
Mar
22
#125: The Reign Of Keynes, Part II – Lord Robert Skidelsky
Robert Skidelsky, FBA is a British economic historian. He is the author of a three-volume award-winning biography of British economist
Mar
20
13th Selected Links
Some links for your weekend perusal:
1. 'The Straussian Moment
[https://www.evernote.com/shard/s542/client/snv?noteGuid=
Mar
17
#124: Recollections Of A Wild Man In The Wings – Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is the father of modern linguistics and one of the most cited scholars in modern history. He is
Mar
13
12th Selected Links
Some links for your weekend perusal:
1. 'The Responsibility of Intellectuals [https://chomsky.info/19670223/]',
arguably Noam Chomsky&
Mar
08
#123: There Is Such A Thing As Society – Sir Paul Collier
Sir Paul Collier is a British development economist. He is currently a professor of economics at the University of Oxford
Mar
06
11th Selected Links
Some links for your weekend perusal:
1. If you've ever wondered what John Maynard Keynes sounded like, here
Mar
01
#122: The Reign Of Keynes, Part I – Zach Carter
Zach Carter is a senior reporter at The Huffington Post and the author of the New York Times bestseller The
Feb
27
10th Selected Links
Some links for your weekend perusal:
1. For all you Bayesians out there: 'The Road to Wisdom
[https://allpoetry.
Feb
22
#121: The Doyen Of Behavioural Genetics On Untangling Nature And Nurture – Robert Plomin
Robert Plomin is one of the world’s leading behavioural geneticists. He is currently MRC Research Professor in Behavioural Genetics
Feb
20
9th Selected Links
Some links for your weekend perusal:
1. Franklin
[https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/october-31-1936-speech-madison-square-garden#dp-expandable-text]
D. Roosevelt's 1936
Feb
16
#120: The Republic Is In Peril – Jack A. Goldstone
Jack A. Goldstone is an American sociologist and the Virginia E. and John T. Hazel, Jr. Chair Professor of Public
Feb
13
8th Selected Links
Some links for your weekend perusal:
1. Werner Herzog gives the best answer ever to the question: "How many
Feb
08
#119: Hard–Earned Lessons From A Maverick Who Made It – Mark Cuban
Transcript
JOE WALKER: Mark Cuban, welcome to The Jolly Swagman Podcast.
MARK CUBAN: Thanks for having me on The Jolly
Feb
06
7th Selected Links
Some links for your weekend perusal:
1. Countries with individualistic cultures are more innovative
[https://voxeu.org/article/culture-can-determine-long-run-growth]
2.
Feb
01
#118: The Wisdom Of Frank Wilczek
Frank Wilczek won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004.
Read the full transcript
[TRANSCRIPT COMING SOON]
Jan
30
6th Selected Links
Some links for your weekend perusal:
1. I've added a mistakes page [https://josephnoelwalker.com/my-mistakes/] to my
Jan
25
#117: The Moral Causes And Consequences Of Economic Growth – Benjamin M. Friedman
Benjamin M. Friedman is widely recognised as one of the world’s leading macroeconomists. He is currently the William Joseph
Jan
23
5th Selected Links
Some links for your weekend enjoyment:
1. An uncannily good description [https://people.bath.ac.uk/ak257/LvB.html] of
Jan
18
#116: The Indiana Jones Of Anthropology On The Origins Of Western Psychology – Joe Henrich
Joe Henrich is Professor and Chair of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Secret
Jan
16
4th Selected Links
Some links for you to check out over the weekend:
1. Welcome To The 'Turbulent Twenties'
[https://www.
Jan
11
#115: Deaths Of Despair And The Future Of Capitalism – Angus Deaton
Sir Angus Deaton is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism.
Transcript
Jan
09
3rd Selected Links
The podcast recommences on Monday. It's going to be a great year for the show.
Each of the
Jan
01
#114: On Ayn Rand, Cooperation, And Successful Societies – David Sloan Wilson
David Sloan Wilson is an evolutionary biologist and the author of Atlas Hugged.
Transcript
JOE WALKER: David Sloan Wilson, welcome
Dec
31
2nd Selected Links
This will be my final email for the year.
Four tidbits for your consumption, including my latest podcast episode:
1.
Dec
26
1st Selected Links
I hope you're having a relaxing break! I thought I'd share some links to things
I
Dec
22
#113: What I Learned In 2020 – John Hempton
John Hempton is co-founder and Chief Investment Officer at Bronte Capital.
Show notes
Selected links
* Follow John: Blog | Twitter
* ‘Approaches
Dec
21
Rational Minds Part 5: Heuristics Make Us Smart – Gerd Gigerenzer
Gerd Gigerenzer is a German psychologist and director emeritus of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max
Dec
20
Rational Minds Part 4: The Blind Leading The Blind – David Hirshleifer
David Hirshleifer is a professor of finance and currently holds the Merage chair in Business Growth at the University of
Dec
19
Rational Minds Part 3: Rethinking Bubbles – Vernon Smith
Vernon Smith won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
Dec
17
Rational Minds Part 2: The Myth Of Tulip Mania – Anne Goldgar
Anne Goldgar is an historian and holds the Van Hunnick Chair in European History at the University of Southern California
Dec
15
Rational Minds Part 1: A Nation Of Gamblers – Ed Glaeser
Ed Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University.
Show notes
Selected links
* Follow Ed:
Dec
07
#107: The Roaring Twenties And The Birth Of Consumer Credit – Martha Olney
Martha Olney is an economist and Teaching Professor in Berkeley’s Economics Department.
Show notes
Selected links
* Follow Martha: Website
Nov
23
#105: Despair And Indignation Among The American White Working Class – Arlie Hochschild
Arlie Hochschild is one of the most influential sociologists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Show notes
Selected links
* Follow
Nov
04
#104: Back To The Future – Tyler Cowen
Tyler Cowen is an economist and public intellectual par excellence.
Show notes
Selected links
* Follow Tyler: Website | Twitter | Podcast | Blog
Oct
19
#103: A Labor Intellectual's Plan To Rebraid Our Frayed Social Fabric – Andrew Leigh
Dr Andrew Leigh MP is an economist and Federal Labor parliamentarian.
Show notes
Selected links
* Follow Andrew: Website | Twitter
* Reconnected,
Oct
12
#102: Frauds And Visionaries – Bethany McLean
Bethany McLean is an investigative journalist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair.
Show notes
Selected links
* Follow Bethany: Website | Twitter
Oct
05
#101: The Rise And Fall Of Monetary Policy – Ian Macfarlane
Ian Macfarlane was Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia from 1996 to 2006.
Show notes
Selected links
* Follow Ian:
Sep
28
#100: An Ode To The Uncorrelated Thinker – Eric Weinstein
Eric Weinstein is a mathematician and the Managing Director of Thiel Capital.
Show notes
Selected links
* Follow Eric: Website | Twitter
Sep
27
#99: Housing Bubble Week Epilogue: Not All Bubbles Are Created Equal – Vernon Smith
Vernon Smith won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002.
Show notes
Charts
Selected links
* Follow Vernon: Website
* Rethinking
Sep
24
#98: The Meaning Of Human Existence, And The Search For Alien Life – Avi Loeb
Avi Loeb is Chair of Harvard’s Astronomy Department.
Show notes
Selected links
* Follow Avi: Website
* The Myth Of Sisyphus,
Sep
21
#97: Of Viruses And Vaccines – Peter Doherty
Peter Doherty is an immunologist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Show notes
Selected links
* Follow Peter:
Aug
13
#96: The Housing Supply Myth – Cameron Murray & Ian Mulheirn
Cameron Murray is a Research Fellow at the University of Sydney’s Henry Halloran Trust. Ian Mulheirn is Executive Director
Aug
11
#95: Inside Humanity's Infinite Improbability Drive – Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley is an author, journalist, biologist, and businessman. His books have sold over a million copies.
Show notes
Selected
Aug
08
#94: Radical Uncertainty – Mervyn King
Mervyn King was Governor of the Bank of England from 2003 to 2013.
Show notes
Selected links
* Follow Mervyn King:
Jul
22
#93: The Doyen Of Economics Podcasting On Death, Lockdown, And The Art Of Socratic Dialogue – Russ Roberts
Russ Roberts is an economist and the host of EconTalk.
Show notes
Selected links
* Follow Russ Roberts: Website | Twitter
* EconTalk
Apr
24
#92: The Life And Times Of A Thoroughly liberal Prime Minister – Malcolm Turnbull
Malcolm Turnbull was Australia’s 29th Prime Minister.
Show notes
Selected links
* Follow Malcolm Turnbull: Website | Twitter
* A Bigger Picture,
Apr
02
#91: How To Put The Economy Into A Coma – Chris Edmond & Steve Hamilton
Chris Edmond and Steve Hamilton are Australian economists.
Show notes
Selected links
* Follow Chris Edmond: Website | Twitter
* Follow Steve Hamilton:
Mar
27
#90: The Price Of Uncertainty – Chris Joye
Chris Joye is Founder and Co-Chief Investments Officer at Coolabah Capital Investments. He is also a Contributing Editor with The
Mar
25
#89: How An Italian Town Conquered Coronavirus – Andrea Crisanti
Andrea Crisanti is a Professor of Microbiology at the University of Padua. He is part of the research team that
Mar
18
#88: A (New) Darwinian Left – Peter Singer (Live In Melbourne)
Peter Singer is the world’s most influential living philosopher.
Show notes
Selected links
* ‘The Dos and Donts of Social
Mar
09
#87: In The Foothills Of A Pandemic – Yaneer Bar–Yam
Yaneer Bar-Yam is a physicist and the founding president of the New England Complex Systems Institute.
Show notes
Selected links
Feb
21
#86: Coronavirus, Covert Influence, And Cold War II – Kevin Rudd
Kevin Rudd was Australia’s 26th Prime Minister and is the President of the Asia Society Policy Institute.
Show notes
Feb
18
#85: The Evolution Of A Renegade – David Sloan Wilson
David Sloan Wilson is an evolutionary biologist.
This episode of the podcast is brought to you by Freelancer.com and
Jan
31
#84: The Intellectual Wild South – Eric Weinstein
Eric Weinstein is a mathematician and the Managing Director of Thiel Capital.
This episode of the podcast is brought to
Jan
16
#83: The Silent Hero Of The Australian Economy – Ian Macfarlane
Ian Macfarlane was Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia from 1996 to 2006. He is the author of The
Dec
20
#82: The Modern Empiricist Proving Old Wisdom On Household Debt And Recession – Amir Sufi
Amir Sufi is the Bruce Lindsay Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Chicago Booth School of
Nov
18
#81: How To Build A Future More Like Star Trek Than Terminator – Andrew Leigh
Dr Andrew Leigh MP is a member of the Australian federal parliament. He is currently Labor’s Shadow Assistant Minister
Nov
05
#80: The Untold Tale of How One Ruthless Company Subjugated a Subcontinent – William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple is an acclaimed historian and travel writer. He lives nine months of the year on a goat farm
Oct
17
#79: On Radical Uncertainty, "Phantastic Objects", and Blowing Bubbles – David Tuckett
David Tuckett is a psychoanalyst, Professor, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty at University College
Oct
01
#78: Lifting the Veil on Sydney's Crime and Skulduggery – Kate McClymont
Kate McClymont is Australia’s most awarded journalist. An investigative reporter at The Sydney Morning Herald, she is famous for
Sep
07
#77: Markets and The Madness of Crowds – Robert Shiller
Robert J. Shiller is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and one of the 2013 recipients of the Nobel
Aug
10
#76: The Dogged Journalist Who (May Have) Pricked a Property Bubble – Adele Ferguson
Adele Ferguson is an award-winning investigative journalist best known for her work exposing misconduct and fraud in the Australian banking
Jul
09
#75: The World According to a Maverick, Beach–Biding Stock Picker – John Hempton
John Hempton is a renowned short seller and the Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Australian-based hedge fund Bronte Capital.
Jun
14
#74: Xi Loves Us, Xi Loves Us Not? – Kevin Rudd
This is an episode about a rising superpower (China) and its ruler (Xi Jinping). It’s also a conversation about
May
30
#72: The Leader Of The Free World Is A Malignant Narcissist With Pre–Dementia – John Gartner
Richard Nixon once said, “I can go into my office and pick up the telephone and in twenty-five minutes seventy
May
23
#71: Housing Bubble Week Finale: It's The Housing Cycle, Stupid! – Ed Leamer
This episode is about why housing busts cause recessions. Few understand their nexus better than Ed Leamer.
Ed is the
May
21
#70: Housing Bubble Week: Getting Things Done in Western Sydney – John Hempton
The logic is inevitable: credit is as much a feature of housing bubbles as the sun is of day. And
May
19
#69: Housing Bubble Week: A Philosophy of Bubbles – Timo Henckel
Bubbles are everywhere today — or so we’re told. But what are they really?
I speak with behavioural macroeconomist from
May
16
#68: Housing Bubble Week: Speculation and Unchartered Waters – Chris Joye
Chris Joye manages $3 billion as the Co-Chief Investment Officer at Australian fixed-income manager Coolabah Capital Investments, and is a
May
15
#67: Housing Bubble Week: Housing Bubbles as Availability Cascades – Timur Kuran
Timur Kuran is a Turkish American economist, Professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor in Islamic Studies
May
14
#66: Housing Bubble Week: Lessons From Amsterdam’s ‘Gentlemen’s Canal’ – Piet Eichholtz
We all know that real estate is the best long-term investment for capital gains, and property investors should just hold
May
13
#65: Housing Bubble Week: Can We Predict Housing Bubbles? – Dean Baker
I speak with Dean Baker, US economist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research based in Washington,
May
12
#64: ‘Housing Bubble Week’ & Joe’s Speech to Mensa
I announce ‘Housing Bubble Week’ and share a speech I gave in Sydney in September 2018.
Show notes
Selected links
Apr
30
#63: Doing Good Better – Will MacAskill
Will MacAskill is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He is also one of the founders
Apr
02
#62: The Evolution Of Bret Weinstein
Bret Weinstein came to public prominence as the professor at the centre of the 2017 Evergreen State College protests. He
Apr
01
An Update From The Lads
Sadly, Angus is stepping down as co-host, to focus on bigger and better things.
Joe, your regular host in 2018,
Apr
01
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Author: Daniel Kahneman [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kahneman]
Published: 2010 (418 pages)
Started reading: 15.January.2017
Finished
Apr
01
Animal Liberation
Author: Peter Singer [http://www.petersinger.info/]
Published: originally, 1975; updated edition, 2009 (248 pages)
Started reading: 9.January.2017
Apr
01
A Few Lessons For Investors And Managers From Warren E. Buffet
Author: Peter Bevelin
Published: 2012 (81 pages)
Started reading: 25.December.2016
Finished reading: 9.January.2017
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Brief description
Apr
01
Man's Search For Meaning
Author: Viktor Frankl [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl]
Published: original, 1946; this version, 2006 (165 pages)
Started reading:
Apr
01
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Author: Ben Horowitz [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Horowitz]
Published: 2014 (282 pages)
Started reading: 30.November.2016
Finished
Apr
01
Why I Write
Author: George Orwell [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell]
Published: Penguin Books, 2005 (120 pages)
Started reading: 27.November.
Apr
01
Antifragile
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb]
Published: Original, 2012; this version, 2014 (426 pages)
Apr
01
Vagabonding
Author: Rolf Potts [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Potts]
Published: original version 2002, this version 2016 (209 pages)
Started
Apr
01
What I Learned Losing A Million Dollars
Authors: Jim Paul & Brendan Moynihan
Published: 2013; first published in 1994 (160 pages)
Started reading: 6.October.2016
Finished
Apr
01
Influence
Author: Robert Cialdini [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cialdini]
Published: 2007 (280 pages)
Started reading: 30.September.2016
Finished
Apr
01
On The Shortness Of Life
Author: Lucius Seneca
[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lucius-Annaeus-Seneca-Roman-philosopher-and-statesman]
(Seneca the Younger)
Published: 2004 (106 pages)
Started reading: 29.September.
Apr
01
The Black Swan
Author: Nassim Taleb [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb]
Published: 2010 (379 pages)
Started reading: 8.September.2016
Apr
01
Elon Musk
Author: Ashlee Vance [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashlee_Vance]
Published: 2015 (386 pages)
Started reading: 5.September.2016
Finished
Apr
01
The Obstacle Is The Way
Author: Ryan Holiday [http://ryanholiday.net/about/]
Published: 2014 (187 pages)
Started reading: 30.August.2016
Finished reading: 2. September.
Apr
01
Grit
Author: Angela Duckworth [http://angeladuckworth.com/about-angela/]
Published: 2016 (282 pages)
Started reading: 19.August.2016
Finished reading: 26.August.
Mar
31
Sapiens
Author: Yuval Harari [http://www.ynharari.com/about/]
Published: 2015 (416 pages)
Starting reading: 12.August.2016
Finished reading: 19.
Mar
31
Churchill
Author: Paul Johnson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Johnson_(writer)]
Published: 2009 (168 pages)
Started reading: 8.August.2016
Mar
31
The 4–Hour Workweek
Author: Timothy Ferriss [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Ferriss]
Published: 2009 (381 pages)
Started reading: 30.July.2016
Finished
Mar
31
What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20
Author: Tina Seelig [https://profiles.stanford.edu/tina-seelig]
Published: 2009 (190 pages)
Started reading: 26.July.2016
Finished reading: 29.
Mar
31
Zero to One
Author: Peter Thiel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel]
Published: 2014 (195 pages)
Started reading: 21.July.2016
Finished
Mar
31
The Lean Startup
Author: Eric Ries [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Ries]
Published: 2011
Started reading: 18.June.2016
Finished reading: 21.
Mar
31
Mindset
Author: Carol Dweck [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Dweck]
Published: 2006
Started reading: 10.June.2016
Finished reading: 17.
Mar
31
Misbehaving
Author: Richard Thaler [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Thaler]
Published: 7.May.2015
Started reading: 10.January.2016
Finished
Dec
13
#61: The Three Big Lies Poisoning Young Minds – Jonathan Haidt
This is a conversation with renowned moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt about his new book The Coddling of The American Mind,
Dec
06
#60: On Recessions – Andrew Charlton
Andrew Charlton is a Rhodes Scholar, economist, and author. From 2008-10, in his late twenties, he was senior economic adviser
Oct
25
#58: When The Sky Fell In – Kevin Rudd
Joe speaks with the 26th Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd. Kevin led Australia from December 2007 to June 2010
Jul
26
#57: The Man Who Defied Europe – Yanis Varoufakis
Joe speaks with former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, the man who defied Europe to save Greece – and failed. Yanis,
Jun
14
#53: Where Venture Capital Meets Social Purpose – May Samali
Critical technological and societal changes of the last century have been spearheaded by entrepreneurs and the investors who back them.
Jun
07
#52: A Short Story of Everything – David Christian
The universe is 13.8 billion years old and humans have existed for only 200,000 years. If that time
Jun
02
#51: The Art/Science of a High Impact Career – Rob Wiblin
Most people want to help others with their career, but what’s the best way to do that? Become a
May
29
#50: The Brave Cookie Monster – Brendan Eich
Brendan Eich is widely regarded as a ‘Father of the Web’. He is the creator of JavaScript and cofounder of
May
24
#49: The Legendary, Fraud–Sniffing Short Seller - Marc Cohodes
For thirty-seven years, Marc Cohodes has bet big money against bad companies. Due to his success, he is regarded as
May
17
#48: My Friend Richard, and Theories of the Universe – Leonard Susskind
Leonard Susskind is Felix Bloch professor of Theoretical physics at Stanford University, and one the fathers of String Theory.
In
May
14
#47: The Shape of Probability – Harry Crane
Harry Crane is a professor of statistics at Rutgers University.
In this episode, Joe catches up with Harry in New
May
03
#46: How Peter Thiel Destroyed Gawker – Ryan Holiday
In 2016, a Florida court delivered an astounding $140 million verdict against Gawker media for publishing a sex tape of