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Daron Acemoglu: The Past and Future of Innovation in our Economy 46:23

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In this episode of Policy Punchline, renown MIT economist Daron Acemoglu takes us through the tumultuous and fascinating history of new technologies and how they have reshaped the societies we live in. He takes us back to the pre-Industrial era, showing that as new technological systems of agriculture changed, exploitative economic systems did not.…

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Marcin Piatkowski: Europe's Growth Champion 1:02:48

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Marcin Piatkowski is a Professor of Economics at Kozminski University in Warsaw and Lead Economist at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Kozminski University and an MA in Finance and Banking from the Warsaw School of Economics. Professor Piatkowski began his career in Citibank Poland and Citigroup USA. He then ser…

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Marc Ecko: Bringing Creativity to Scale 1:07:11

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Dr. Marc Ecko is a serial entrepreneur who has been one of the influential figures of the early 2000s in shaping culture, especially around hip-hop and streetwear. His brand — Ecko Unltd. — amalgamated the cultural elements of hip-hop with Dr. Ecko’s own fashion vision to create a worldwide brand with over a billion dollars in revenue. He then went…

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Matthew Yglesias: Discussing a Career in Political Media 1:08:10

1y ago1:08:10

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Matthew Yglesias is a leading policy blogger and journalist, and has long pioneered what political media looks like on the internet. He has written about politics and public policy for a wide array of publications, including the American Prospect, the Atlantic, the Center for American Progress, and Slate. In 2014, Matt co-founded Vox with Ezra Klei…

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Tiffany Vora: Science Communication in the Post-COVID Era 56:36

1+ y ago56:36

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(Disclaimer: This episode was originally recorded in July 2021.) Dr. Tiffany Vora is an educator, researcher, and entrepreneur who is the chair of medicine and digital biology at Singularity University. She does a huge amount of work in science communication, advising startup founders, and science writing. She studied molecular biology and chemistr…

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Ethan Nadelmann: Drug Policy's Past, Present, and Future 1:14:45

1+ y ago1:14:45

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Dr. Ethan Nadelmann is one of the foremost experts on drug policy in the US and the world. Originally from New York City, he received his BA, JD, and PhD from Harvard, then his master’s degree in international relations from the London School of Economics. After teaching politics and public affairs at Princeton University from 1987 to 1994, he went…

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Nicholas Christakis: Understanding the Genetics of Social Networks 54:20

2y ago54:20

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Professor Christakis is the Sterling Professor of Natural and Social Science at Yale University. His research is focused on understanding social networks through their biological and evolutionary determinants, which encompasses studying a broad range of topics from epidemiology and contagion to human behavior and psychology. Professor Christakis ha…

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Lord Mervyn King: Radical Uncertainty 47:36

2y ago47:36

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Lord Mervyn King is a professor of economics and law at the NYU Stern School of Business and the School of Law, and the former governor of the Bank of England. He served as Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of its Monetary Policy Committee from 2003 to 2013. Lord King was knighted (GBE) in 2011, made a life peer in 2013, and appointed by…

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Gregory Zuckerman: A Shot to Save the World 43:56

2y ago43:56

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Gregory Zuckerman is a nonfiction author and special writer at The Wall Street Journal. Before joining the Journal, Zuckerman was managing editor of Mergers and Acquisitions Reports, a trade publication of Investment Dealers’ Digest, and the New York Post as a media reporter. At the Journal, Zuckerman is an investigative reporter covering business …

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Sandro Galea: The Contagion Next Time 58:03

2y ago58:03

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Professor Sandro Galea is a physician and epidemiologist who is dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. His research is centered on the social factors that influence health and trauma, and his work is highly cited in the field of public health. Some of his most notable work relates to the ramifications of mas…

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Tiger’s Last Interview - Prema Gauranga Das: Satsang on the Ganges and the Pursuit of Absolute Truth 2:35:37

2y ago2:35:37

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This interview marks my last interview as the host of Policy Punchline. I will soon release another recording giving you an update about Policy Punchline’s future, but for now I just want to present to you the following conversation with Prema Gauranga Das. Over the last three years with Policy Punchline, I’ve interviewed more than 150 guests, most…

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Jean Hebert: Do Our Minds Have To Decline With Age? 55:07

2+ y ago55:07

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Dr. Jean Hebert is a professor at the Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is also a professor in the department of genetics, and has conducted research that has been published in renowned journals such as Science. His current scope of research in the Hebert Lab includes devising methods of c…

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Anders Sandberg: Radical Views of Utility and Evaluating Risk 59:42

2+ y ago59:42

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Dr. Anders Sandberg is a James Martin Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford. He is a senior research fellow on the ERC UnPrEDICT Programme, and a research associate to the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics. He holds a PhD in computational neuroscience from Stoc…

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Peter Wendell: The Evolution of Venture Capital and Secular Tech Growth 1:15:49

2+ y ago1:15:49

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Peter Wendell is the founder of Sierra Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has invested more than $2 billion over the past 35 years in a wide variety of successful technology companies. Peter has taught more than 2,000 Stanford MBAs over the past 30 years, specifically the very popular course Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital wi…

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Richard V. Spencer: Integrated Naval Force, Eddie Gallagher, and the Philosophy of War 1:20:48

2+ y ago1:20:48

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Richard V. Spencer served as the 76th United States Secretary of the Navy from 2017 to 2019. He also briefly served as Acting Secretary of Defense and Acting Deputy Secretary of Defense in 2019. Sec. Spencer’s term as the Navy Secretary was terminated on November 24, 2019, when Secretary of Defense Mark Esper requested his resignation over his hand…

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Jamil El-Imad: Connecting Our Brains to the World 1:03:56

2+ y ago1:03:56

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Dr. Jamil El-Imad is the CEO of The Brain Forum, a neuroscience, brain-computer interface (BCI), and virtual reality (VR) research foundation in Switzerland, as well as the co-founder of NeuroPro, a Swiss-based Digital Health Solutions company that leverage the latest advances in computer science and digital technology to create new and improved to…

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Toni Townes-Whitley: Digital Transformation in Government and Ethics of Innovation 1:00:44

2+ y ago1:00:44

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Toni Townes-Whitley graduated from Princeton University in 1985 with a B.A. in Public Policy and Economics. She then went to the peace corps for three years in Gabon. With a non-tech background, she went on to become the President of the IT and business consulting services firm CGI Federal and presently the President of US Regulated Industries at M…

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Mitch Julis: Credit Investing in Covid, Complex Systems, and How Structure Determines Behavior 1:19:29

2+ y ago1:19:29

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Mitch Julis is the Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Canyon Partners, one of the largest and best-performing multi-strategy hedge funds in the world. If you listen to the end of our interviews or visit our website, you’ll see that Policy Punchline is generously funded by the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance (JRCPPF) at Princeton Un…

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Paul Haaga Returns: A Deep Dive Into Facebook Oversight Board and Deplatforming Trump 1:04:43

2+ y ago1:04:43

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Paul G. Haaga Jr. is the former acting CEO of NPR, the former chairman and director of Capital Research and Management Company, and the Chairperson of the Facebook Oversight Board Trust.In this episode, we welcome back Mr. Haaga Jr. to Policy Punchline to discuss Facebook's recent decision on deplatforming former U.S. President Donald J. Trump.…

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Paul Haaga on Leading NPR and the Threats to Public and Local Journalism 1:33:37

2+ y ago1:33:37

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Paul G. Haaga Jr. is the former acting CEO of NPR, the former chairman and director of Capital Research and Management Company, and the Chairperson of the Facebook Oversight Board Trust.De către Princeton University

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Tim Roughgarden: Gödel Prize Winner and Trailblazer from Algorithmic Game Theory to EIP-1559 1:48:31

2+ y ago1:48:31

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Tim Roughgarden is a Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and a winner of the Gödel Prize, which is often considered as “the Nobel Prize of theoretical computer science.” His research interests include the many connections between computer science and economics, as well as the design, analysis, applications, and limitations of algor…

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Atif Mian: Fixing the Imbalance of Global Macrofinance 2:02:09

2+ y ago2:02:09

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My guest today is someone of great personal significance to me. He is my senior thesis advisor and one of the most important mentors in my student career. Atif Mian is the John H. Laporte, Jr. Class of 1967 Professor of Economics, Public Policy and Finance at Princeton University, and the Director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy an…

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Matt Levine: King of The Financial Newsletter 1:27:46

2+ y ago1:27:46

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Matt Levine writes the popular daily newsletter “Money Stuff” on Bloomberg Opinion that has over 150,000 subscribers and a “cult-like” following on Wall Street and beyond. He is widely regarded as one of the most iconic, witty, and sophisticated financial writers of our age. Before Bloomberg, Matt was an editor of Dealbreaker, an investment banker …

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Alex Tabarrok: Fractional Dosing Vaccine, Libertarianism in COVID, and the Great Tech Stagnation 1:41:20

2+ y ago1:41:20

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Alex Tabarrok is Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center and a professor of economics at George Mason University. Along with Tyler Cowen, he is the co-author of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution and co-founder of Marginal Revolution University. He is the author of numerous academic papers in the fields of law and ec…

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Ramesh Ponnuru on American Conservatism’s Crossroads 50:33

2+ y ago50:33

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Ramesh Ponnuru is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, senior editor with the National Review, and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. A leading conservative thinker and pundit, Ramesh has made numerous appearances on shows like Meet the Press and Face the Nation. He is also an alumnus of Princeton, earning a degree in History. In…

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Tony Yoseloff: Sustaining Excellence at Davidson Kempner and Supporting Equality in Education 1:27:07

2+ y ago1:27:07

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Anthony (Tony) Yoseloff is the Executive Managing Member and Chief Investment Officer of Davidson Kempner Capital Management, one of the world’s largest alternative asset managers with more than $37 billion in assets under management. Tony graduated from Princeton University in 1996 with a B.A. from the School of Public and International Affairs. H…

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Bridgewater CEO David McCormick: Dalio's Transition, Macro Uncertainty, National Innovation Policy 53:57

2+ y ago53:57

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David McCormick is the CEO of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund with over $140 billion in assets under management. David joined Bridgewater in 2009 and was President and Co-CEO before becoming CEO in 2020. Prior to Bridgewater, he was the US Treasury Under Secretary for International Affairs in the George W. Bush Administration…

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John Ikenberry - A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order 57:27

2+ y ago57:27

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Professor Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the School of Public and International Affairs. He is one of the most notable scholars in the entire field of international relations, with an expansive body of work spanning countless books, journal…

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The Path to Net-Zero: Modular Nuke, Electric Vehicle, and Patient Capital in Green Tech 1:28:56

2+ y ago1:28:56

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William Bohnett is the Chair of the Advisory Board of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. He served from 2009-2018 as a member of the National Board of the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum and research complex. Bill sits on the Executive Committee of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness, a non-partisan NGO working on na…

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Matt Weinberg: A Mechanism Designer’s View on Cryptocurrency, Incentives, Trust, and Human Nature 1:40:23

2+ y ago1:40:23

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Matt Weinberg is an assistant professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. His primary research interest is in Algorithmic Mechanism Design: auction design, cryptocurrency, voting systems, and more. In this interview, Prof. Weinberg provides both a detailed overview of mechanism design and its philosophical implications, and he discusses …

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Ben Hunt: Epsilon Theory, Wall Street's Game of Leverage, Forecasting Uncertainty and Narratives 1:31:18

2+ y ago1:31:18

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Ben Hunt is the creator of Epsilon Theory and inspiration behind Second Foundation Partners, which he co-founded with Rusty Guinn in June 2018.De către Princeton University

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Gas, Green Electricity, and Geopolitics: America in a World of Renewable Energy 1:11:46

2+ y ago1:11:46

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Nikos Tsafos is interim director and senior fellow of the Energy Security and Climate Change Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He’s researched, written, advised, and consulted extensively on a range of fascinating topics, including natural gas, the geopolitics of energy, the future of mobility, and the global ene…

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Rob Johnson: The Future of Economics, Social Design, and Radical Uncertainty 1:32:11

2+ y ago1:32:11

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Our host Tiger recently received his first ever podcast interview as a guest on the Economics & Beyond podcast hosted by Rob Johnson, President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET). This is certainly a great honor for him, as Rob’s guests typically range from Nobel Laureates to accomplished public intellectuals. They talked for 3.5 hou…

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Podcasting and the Fragile Public Discourse - Tiger Interviewed by Rob Johnson 1:12:38

2+ y ago1:12:38

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Our host Tiger recently received his first ever podcast interview as a guest on the Economics & Beyond podcast hosted by Rob Johnson, President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET). This is certainly a great honor for him, as Rob’s guests typically range from Nobel Laureates to accomplished public intellectuals. They talked for 3.5 hou…

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Nolan McCarty on Polarization: What Everyone Needs to Know 1:02:32

2+ y ago1:02:32

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Nolan McCarty is the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs and Interim Dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. He is the co-author of several books, including Political Bubbles: Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy and Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches. His mos…

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Jeremy Adelman: Fatigued Pluralist Narrative, The Gibbon Paradox, and Global Interdependence 1:17:35

2+ y ago1:17:35

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Jeremy Adelman is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton University and the Director of the Global History Lab, which strives to teach students internationally how to create new global narratives even across divides. Recently, the Global History Lab has brought displaced persons and refugees into its network. His academic focus is …

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Esteban Rossi-Hansberg: Forecasting Climate Change with Spatial Economics 1:34:45

2+ y ago1:34:45

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Esteban Rossi-Hansberg is the Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics at Princeton University. He performs research in macroeconomics, international trade, and urban and regional economics. He has been appointed the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago where he will join the faculty of the Kenneth C. Griff…

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Sheldon Solomon - The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life 1:58:35

2+ y ago1:58:35

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Sheldon Solomon is Professor of Psychology at Skidmore College. He is best known for developing terror management theory along with Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski, which is concerned with how humans deal with their own sense of mortality. He studies the effects of the uniquely human awareness of death on human behaviors. He is co-author of seve…

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Austen Allred: Lambda School, Y Combinator, and Democratization of VC Investing 1:27:46

2+ y ago1:27:46

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Austen Allred is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lambda School. It is an online platform that trains you remotely to become a web developer or a data scientist. The user pays no tuition until hired. Austen’s start-up journey began in 2017 with him living in his two-door Civic while participating in Y Combinator (YC), the famous San Francisco-based seed a…

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Containers, Coal, and Carbon: Freight Railways in America’s Transportation Landscape 1:28:26

2+ y ago1:28:26

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Ian Jefferies is the President and CEO of the Association of American Railroads (AAR), an organization whose members include the major freight railroads of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and Amtrak. Chuck Baker joined American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA) as President after a 15-year career in the railroad industry. In this …

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Making a Modern Central Bank: The Bank of England 1979-2003 1:30:47

2+ y ago1:30:47

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Harold James is the Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies and Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is one of the most prominent financial and economist historians of our age, and his most recent book “Making a Modern Central Bank: The Bank of England, 1979–2003” was just published in the fall of 2…

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Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream 1:25:43

2+ y ago1:25:43

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Simon Johnson is the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he is also head of the Global Economics and Management group. Prior to teaching, Professor Simon Johnson worked as the Chief Economist and Director of the Research Department at the IMF from 2007 to 2008. This interview discusses his most…

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Chemputers, Non-Carbon Based Life, and the Future of Chemistry 51:18

2+ y ago51:18

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Lee Cronin is a chemist and the Regius Chair of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. He has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and has published over 350 papers and given hundreds of lectures. He also heads the Cronin Group, a lab that is “motivated by the fascination for complex che…

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Big Data Insights on Small Business and Household Finance in the COVID-19 Economy 1:25:30

2+ y ago1:25:30

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Chris Wheat is the Co-President for the JPMorgan Chase Institute. Prior to joining JPMCI, he served as the Director of Analytics at a financial technology startup, where he led the development of advanced analytics algorithms. He previously was an Assistant Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and at the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship…

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George Church: The Father of Human Genome Project and CRISPR Genome Engineering 1:21:49

2+ y ago1:21:49

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George Church is Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and MIT. He is known as the father of synthetic biology and the CRISPR-CAS9 gene editing technology, and he is widely recognized as one of the most important geneticists of our age. In 1984, he developed the fi…

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Greg Lewis: A Bayesian's Approach to Machine Learning in Economics 1:26:55

2+ y ago1:26:55

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Greg Lewis is an economist and the Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft and co-leads the ALICE (Automated Learning and Intelligence for Causation and Economics) and EconML projects, an effort to develop use AI and machine learning for economics research. He specializes in industrial organization, market design, applied econometrics and machine …

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The King of Electricity: Solar Energy Innovations That Will Power Our Future 32:15

2+ y ago32:15

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Last October, the IEA declared that solar power is “the new King of Electricity.” But as it currently produces only 2% of the global electricity, the newly crowned energy royalty has a long way to go before it will reach full dominance. In Taming the Sun, Dr. Varun Sivaram outlines the financial, technological, and systemic innovations that could a…

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Mathias Risse: Framing Justice in the Age of Globalization and Artificial Intelligence 1:21:59

3y ago1:21:59

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Mathias Risse is the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration at the Kennedy School at Harvard University. He also serves as the Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. His research questions the role of global …

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Robert Langer: Engineering the Future of Medicine, from mRNA Vaccine to Drug Delivery System 1:27:58

3y ago1:27:58

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Robert Langer is an acclaimed chemical engineer, professor, and investor in biomedical technology. He is one of 10 Institute Professors at MIT, which is the highest honor that can be awarded to a faculty member. He has written more than 1,500 articles, with 1,400 patents issued and pending worldwide that have been licensed to over 400 companies. He…

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Modern Markets for All: How a Government Utility Could Revolutionize Gig Work 1:35:29

3y ago1:35:29

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Wingham Rowan has long been a leader in forecasting the interactions between technology and society. For instance, he created, produced, and presented cyber.cafe, Britain’s longest running TV series about the internet. He also was a presenter on his own program for children, Rowan’s Report. More recently, however, Mr. Rowan has been studying the fu…

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