Today’s first guest is Stanford Economics Professor Paul Oyer who has written the book An Economist Goes to the Game: How to Throw Away $580 million and Other Surprising Insights from the Economics of Sports. Paul will discuss which sports your kids should play. Why South Koreans dominate women’s golf? And how does game theory inform us whether Michael Jordan should take the last shot or pass the ball to another player? Our second speaker will be University of Michigan economist Stefan Szymanski...
Nov 12, 2022•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today’s guest is Jeff Luhnow the former General Manager of the Houston Astros and the current owner of soccer teams in Mexico and Spain. Jeff will explain how owners use sports analytics to draft and trade players. How to use game theory to improve strategy for penalty kicks. And how to use metrics to improve player development. The Moneyball culture has changed sports and you will hear from a leader in the field what goes on behind the scenes. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes w...
Nov 04, 2022•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today’s podcast is a conversation that includes former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh and my old boss Nobel Prize winner Myron Scholes. There is no free lunch and Kevin will explain how excessive government spending has resulted in a surge in inflation and changed the behavior of ordinary Americans on how they spend, save, and take risks. The inflation genie is out of the bottle, and to get inflation under control will require a regime change at the Fed. This will not be an easy battle to fight, and y...
Oct 29, 2022•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today’s podcast was recorded previously at Stanford at an event to honor my old boss and close friend Myron Scholes who won the Nobel Prize in Economics. Our first speaker will be Andy Lo who is a Finance Professor at MIT, and he will discuss his book In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio. Andy interviewed a dozen leaders in academic finance and top practitioners about how to design a portfolio balancing risk and reward by maximizing diversification. Our second speaker will be Jonathan Levin who i...
Oct 21, 2022•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our speaker will be Robert Sapolsky who is a Professor of Biology and Neurology at Stanford as well as the author of numerous books including Why Zebra Don’t Get Ulcers and Behave. Robert believes that you do not have any free will. That instead your behavior is dictated by a complex combination of factors that include genes, environment, hormones, glucose levels, and epigenetic events. It is complicated, but Robert will argue that there is no little man in your head making the decisions. Get fu...
Oct 15, 2022•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our speaker will be Nick Bloom who is a Stanford Professor of Economics. Nick is a leader in the research on working from home. Nick will explain the growing dominance of hybrid work for certain segments of our economy. It turns out that hybrid work increases productivity for some employees, and it makes them happy. Technologists are aware that work from home has changed the nature of employment, and substantial R&D is being to improve the zoom experience with dozens of cameras to make it seem l...
Oct 08, 2022•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our speaker will be Yale historian Paul Kennedy who is well known for his classic book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers . This will be the final podcast of his four-part podcast series on the history of World War 2. Today’s podcast will focus on the battles beginning in 1944 and ending with Japan’s unconditional surrender. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...
Oct 01, 2022•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our speaker will be Jason Bedrick who is a Research Fellow at the Center for Education Policy at the Heritage Foundation. Jason is also the author of the book Religious Liberty and Education. The New York Times had a recent 5-page story about the inadequacies of NYC Yeshiva Schools. This two-year investigation concluded that the students in the most religious schools had inadequate English skills because their classes are taught in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Aramaic. The New York Times concluded that ...
Sep 24, 2022•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our first speaker will be Harvey Silverglate who is one of America’s top defense lawyers. Harvey has represented criminal defendants in some of the most famous cases. He has taught at Harvard Law School and has been the Chairman of the Board of the ACLU’s Massachusetts Affiliate. Harvey is an expert on the FBI and he feels that the ghost of J. Edgar Hoover haunts the FBI, and as a result, the FBI needs to be shut down, the staff fired, and a new national police force needs to be created to handl...
Sep 17, 2022•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Parents and kids spend a lot of time worrying about getting into college. But as soon as they enroll, their next concern is landing a big internship, because it may help in landing a job after graduation. On today’s program, I want to focus on three issues. How do kids get an internship? What would be an ideal internship for a particular individual? And what skill building should the inter focus on? Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6m...
Sep 10, 2022•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our speaker will be John Ellis who is the former Dean of the University of California at Santa Cruz and a Professor of German Literature. The topic is the corruption of the Humanities, and what this means for the University. I’ve raided the What Happens Next archives to find additional material that supports John Ellis’s discussion. We are going to hear from Arnold Weinstein who is a Professor of English at Brown University who will discuss the increasing resistance to teaching Mark Twain’s Huck...
Sep 02, 2022•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Richard Fontaine and his team at the Center for a New American Security or CNAS developed war games with retired defense officials and members of congress. A few days ago, there were war games to see what happens if China were to invade Taiwan. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe
Aug 27, 2022•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our speaker will be Mark Galeotti who is the author of the books We Need to Talk About Putin and The Weaponization of Everything. Mark will speak about Putin’s war objectives and his implementation strategy. A couple of months ago the Russian government banned Mark from entering the country. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe...
Aug 20, 2022•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our speaker is Paul Mango who helped manage Operation Warp Speed as the former deputy chief of the US Health and Human Services. He has just written a new book entitled Warp Speed: Inside the Operation that Beat COVID, the Critics and the Odds. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe
Aug 13, 2022•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our first speaker is Moises Naim who is a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the author of the new book entitled Revenge of Power. Moises will tell us about how populism, polarization, and post-truth undermine the democratic process. And that there is a global trend in the past few decades away from democracies towards more authoritarian regimes. Our second speaker will be Julian Waller who is a political scientist at George Washington University, and he has a new paper...
Aug 06, 2022•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our speaker is Paul Kennedy is the J Richardson Dilworth Professor of History at Yale. He has a new book out entitled Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in WW2. This episode Part 3 will focus on the fateful year 1943 when the war was won. Paul will tell us why the US decided to invade North Africa instead of Europe, as a trial balloon. Why North Africa was followed up with an invasion of Italy that subsequently knocked Mussolini of the war. We will learn about...
Jul 30, 2022•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our first speaker will be Michele Margolis who is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Michele has a new book entitled From Politics to the Pews: How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity. Michele believes that most political scientists misunderstand the role of religion and partisanship. The commonly held view is that religious people tend to vote Republican. Michele believes that partisanship is the driving force and that ...
Jul 22, 2022•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our first speaker is John Taylor who is the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford. John is famous for developing the Taylor Rule. John will explain his Taylor rule for setting the optimal short-term interest rate and why interest rates need to rise to quell rising inflation. Our second speaker is Casey Mulligan who is the Ken Griffin Professor of Economics at University of Chicago’s Booth School and the Former Chief Economist for the Council of Economic Advisors in the Trump...
Jul 16, 2022•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast I was born and raised in Glencoe which is a couple of miles from the killing zone. My friends and family were at the Highland Park parade. Today, we will hear from my brother-in-law David Baum who is married to my wife’s sister Debra. And then we will hear from David’s daughter Brittany Wroblewski who is my niece. Brittany marched in the parade with her son Blake moments before the shooting began. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6min...
Jul 14, 2022•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our speaker is Deyan Sudjic who is the former director of the Design Museum in London and the author of the book the Language of Cities. I want to learn from Deyan why its important that cities give you freedom with its anonymity and how that differs from village life. Deyan will re-examine some of Jane Jacobs insights on city life in the present day, and he will evaluate the success and failure of rejuvenating former industrial sites in urban environments. After Deyan speaks, we are going to ra...
Jul 02, 2022•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our first speaker is Yale Historian Paul Kennedy. This is part 2 of our upcoming four-part history on WW2. I want to take you back to 1942 when nobody knew who would win the war. The Nazis had just conquered France after a few weeks of fighting, and the Americans had been humiliated at Pearl Harbor. U-Boats were everywhere in the Atlantic and were torpedoing America’s Merchant Marine. Paul will explain how the Allies successfully beat back the U-Boat threat in the Atlantic and why we fought Germ...
Jun 24, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our first speaker today will be Sean Berkowitz who successfully defended Michael Sussmann of felony charges that he lied to the FBI about the Trump investigation. Sean will give us the inside look from the defendant’s perspective. Sean is an old friend of mine. We attended Hebrew School together and we were opponents in high school debate tournaments. Sean claims he won. Sean is also famous for being the special prosecutor in the Enron trials. Our second speaker will be Robert Young who is a ret...
Jun 18, 2022•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our first speaker is Chris Doyle who is a tax partner with Hodgson Russ who represents wealthy individuals who move to places like the Hamptons or Miami to avoid paying New York City income taxes. The tax authorities will be coming gun blazing to get their money. Chris Doyle will explain the issues and how to plan your life if you want to get out of high tax jurisdictions. Our second speaker is Professor John McGinnis from Northwestern Law School. Alexander Hamilton expected lawyers to be the fi...
Jun 10, 2022•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our speaker is Paul Kennedy who is the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale. Paul is one of our greatest living historians and he will discuss the battle between the US and Japanese in the Pacific during WW2. Today’s session will be the first in a four-part series with Paul Kennedy. Today’s podcast will be followed-up with The Battle of the Atlantic, The Normandy Invasion and the surrender of Germany, and finally the Conquest of Japan. Get full access to What Ha...
Jun 04, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our first speaker will be John McGinnis who is the George C. Dix Professor in Constitutional Law at Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law. John will evaluate Justice Alito’s Dobbs opinion and the originalist approach to jurisprudence. Our second speaker will be Howard Husock who is the Senior Fellow of Domestic Policy Studies at AEI. Howard will be speaking about the political implications of overturning Roe vs. Wade. I want to find out from Howard if pushing the abortion decision away from the ...
May 27, 2022•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Host: Larry Bernstein. Guest is Paul Kennedy. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe
May 21, 2022•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Host: Larry Bernstein. Guest is Aaron Friedberg. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe
May 14, 2022•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Host: Larry Bernstein. Guests are Robert Kaplan and Emerson T. Brooking. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe
May 06, 2022•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Host: Larry Bernstein. Guests are Jeremy Dauber and Matthew Continetti. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe
Apr 30, 2022•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Host: Larry Bernstein. Guests are Mitchell Schwarzer and Tom Sancton. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe
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