Chris Edmond and Steve Hamilton are Australian economists. Show notes Selected links •Follow Chris Edmond: Website | Twitter •Follow Steve Hamilton: Website | Twitter •'A Rush Back to 'Normal' Would Be the Blunder of the Century', WIRED's interview of Larry Summers •'Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions to reduce COVID-19 mortality and healthcare demand', Imperial College London paper by Neil Ferguson et al •'How the recession we have to have can be sharp but short', The Australian Financi...
Apr 01, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Season 4Ep. 95
Chris Joye is Founder and Co-Chief Investments Officer at Coolabah Capital Investments. He is also a Contributing Editor with The... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 26, 2020•2 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 94
Andrea Crisanti is a Professor of Microbiology at the University of Padua. He is part of the research team that eradicated coronavirus in Vo, a town in northern Italy. Show notes Selected links •Follow Andrea: Website •Johns Hopkins University's coronavirus dashboard •Data on testing by country •Marc Lipsitch's 18 March STAT article Topics discussed •The Italian crisis. 8:22 •Why has Lombardy become an epicentre of coronavirus? 9:50 •How does the situation in Veneto compare to that in Lombardy? ...
Mar 25, 2020•33 min•Season 4Ep. 93
Peter Singer is the world's most influential living philosopher. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 18, 2020•2 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 92
Yaneer Bar-Yam is a physicist and the founding president of the New England Complex Systems Institute. Show notes Selected links •Follow Yaneer: Website | Twitter •Endcoronavirus.org •Dynamics of Complex Systems, by Yaneer Bar-Yam •Making Things Work, by Yaneer Bar-Yam •'Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)', research by Max Roser and Hannah Ritchie •Powers of Ten YouTube video •'An Introduction to Complex Systems Science and Its Applications', 2019 paper by Alexander Siegenfeld and Yaneer Bar-Yam •'T...
Mar 09, 2020•2 hr 10 min•Season 4Ep. 91
Kevin Rudd was Australia's 26th Prime Minister and is the President of the Asia Society Policy Institute. Show notes Selected links •Follow Kevin: Website | Twitter •Mike Pence's Hudson Institute Speech (October 4, 2018) •'The Sources of Soviet Conduct', 1947 article by "X" (George Kennan) •Henry Kissinger's talk at Bloomberg's New Economy Forum (November 21, 2019) •'Chinese Communist Party Influence at Australian Universities', lecture by Clive Hamilton •'High Tide? Populism in Power, 1990 - 20...
Feb 20, 2020•41 min•Season 4Ep. 90
David Sloan Wilson is an evolutionary biologist. This episode of the podcast is brought to you by Freelancer.com and by Blinkist. You can find the Blinkist deal exclusive to listeners of this podcast at www.blinkist.com/swagman. Show notes Selected links •Follow David: Website | Twitter •The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins •River Out Of Eden, by Richard Dawkins •The Descent Of Man, by Charles Darwin •Animal Dispersion In Relation To Social Behavior, by Vero Wynne-Edwards •Adaptation And Natural...
Feb 17, 2020•3 hr 4 min•Season 4Ep. 89
Eric Weinstein is a mathematician and the Managing Director of Thiel Capital. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 30, 2020•2 hr 57 min•Season 4Ep. 88
Ian Macfarlane was Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia from 1996 to 2006. He is the author of The Search For Stability and Ten... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 15, 2020•1 hr 39 min•Season 4Ep. 87
Amir Sufi is the Bruce Lindsay Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 19, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 85
Dr Andrew Leigh MP is a member of the Australian federal parliament. He is currently Labor's Shadow Assistant... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 18, 2019•58 min•Season 3Ep. 84
William Dalrymple is an acclaimed historian and travel writer. He lives nine months of the year on a... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 04, 2019•1 hr 13 min•Season 3Ep. 83
David Tuckett is a psychoanalyst, Professor, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty at... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 16, 2019•2 hr 20 min•Season 3Ep. 82
Kate McClymont is Australia's most awarded journalist. An investigative reporter at The Sydney Morning Herald, she is famous... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 30, 2019•1 hr 13 min•Season 3Ep. 81
Robert J. Shiller is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and one of the 2013 recipients of... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 07, 2019•2 hr 18 min•Season 3Ep. 80
Adele Ferguson is an award-winning investigative journalist best known for her work exposing misconduct and fraud in the... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Aug 09, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 79
John Hempton is a renowned short seller and the Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Australian-based hedge fund... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 08, 2019•2 hr 52 min•Season 3Ep. 77
This is an episode about a rising superpower (China) and its ruler (Xi Jinping). It's also a conversation... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 14, 2019•1 hr 29 min•Season 3Ep. 76
This episode is about why housing busts cause recessions. Few understand their nexus better than Ed Leamer. Ed... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 23, 2019•52 min•Season 3Ep. 73
The logic is inevitable: credit is as much a feature of housing bubbles as the moon is of... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 20, 2019•54 min•Season 3Ep. 72
Bubbles are everywhere today — or so we're told. But what are they really? I speak with behavioural... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 19, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 71
Chris Joye manages $3 billion as the Co-Chief Investment Officer at Australian fixed-income manager Coolabah Capital Investments, and... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 16, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Season 3Ep. 70
Timur Kuran is a Turkish American economist. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 15, 2019•45 min•Season 3Ep. 69
We all know that real estate is the best long-term investment for capital gains... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 14, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 68
I speak with Dean Baker, US economist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 13, 2019•57 min•Season 3Ep. 67
I announce 'Housing Bubble Week' and share a speech I gave in Sydney in September 2018. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 12, 2019•24 min•Season 3Ep. 66
Will MacAskill is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Oxford. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 30, 2019•39 min•Season 3Ep. 65
Bret Weinstein came to public prominence as the professor at the centre of the 2017 Evergreen State College... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 02, 2019•3 hr 45 min•Season 3Ep. 64
This is a conversation with renowned moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 13, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 61
Andrew Charlton is a Rhodes Scholar, economist, author and former prime ministerial adviser. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 06, 2018•19 min•Season 2Ep. 60
