161 | W. Brian Arthur on Complexity Economics
Economies in the modern world are incredibly complex systems. But when we sit down to think about them in quantitative […]
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139 | Elizabeth Anderson on Equality, Work, and Ideology
Imagine two people with exactly the same innate abilities, but one is born into a wealthy family and the other
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97 | John Danaher on Our Coming Automated Utopia
Humans build machines, in part, to relieve themselves from the burden of work on difficult, repetitive tasks. And yet, despite
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84 | Suresh Naidu on Capitalism, Monopsony, and Inequality
Nations generally want their economies to be rich, robust, and growing. But it’s also important to person to ensure that
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72 | César Hidalgo on Information in Societies, Economies, and the Universe
Maxwell’s Demon is a famous thought experiment in which a mischievous imp uses knowledge of the velocities of gas molecules
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69 | Cory Doctorow on Technology, Monopoly, and the Future of the Internet
Like so many technological innovations, the internet is something that burst on the scene and pervaded human life well before
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Episode 19: Tyler Cowen on Maximizing Growth and Thinking for the Future
Economics, like other sciences (social and otherwise), is about what the world does; but it’s natural for economists to occasionally
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Episode 13: Neha Narula on Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of the Internet
For something of such obvious importance, money is kind of mysterious. It can, as Homer Simpson once memorably noted, be
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