The Jolly Swagman Podcast
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Conversations hosted by Joe Walker. As featured in The Australian Financial Review, The Daily Telegraph, & The Sydney Morning Herald. Half of the mission of this podcast is to stubbornly defy those polarising trends. It aims to make the best of the communications and information technologies of the age by linking disparate academic hubs, admitting good faith arguments of all stripes, and..
The Jolly Swagman Podcast
5M ago
Shruti Rajagopalan is an Indian-American economist. She leads the Indian political economy research program and Emergent Ventures India at Mercatus. She hosts the Ideas of India podcast.
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6M ago
What were the deep causes of the global financial crisis and great recession? Has unconventional monetary policy in the wake of the crisis done more harm than good? And should monetary policy target financial stability?
I discuss these questions and more with Indian economist and Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Raghuram Rajan.
Raghuram Rajan was chief economist at the IMF from 2003 to 2006, and from 2013 to 2016 he was Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. As RBI Governor, he notably introduced India's inflation-targeting scheme, among many other achievements.
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The Jolly Swagman Podcast
7M ago
Peter Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He is widely regarded as the world's most influential living philosopher.
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Episode recorded on 26 April 2023.
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8M ago
Peter Turchin is a complexity scientist and one of the founders of cliodynamics — a new, cross-disciplinary field that applies mathematics and big data to test historical theories.
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9M ago
Stephen Wolfram is a physicist, computer scientist and businessman. He is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, the creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha, and the author of A New Kind of Science.
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9M ago
Katalin Karikó is a Hungarian-American biochemist and one of the chief inventors of mRNA technology.
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Richard Rhodes is an American historian and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
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1y ago
Dr Ken Henry is an Australian economist who served as Secretary of Australia's Treasury from 2001 to 2011. He was instrumental in helping Australia avoid recession during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis — Australia was the only major advanced economy to do so.
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1y ago
Palmer Luckey is an American tech entrepreneur and billionaire. He has founded two companies: Oculus VR (acquired by Facebook for $2 billion in 2014), and Anduril (recently valued at $8.5 billion). He has been described as the real-life Tony Stark.
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1y ago
Daniel Kahneman is widely regarded as the most influential psychologist alive. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics (2002) for his work on judgment and decision-making under uncertainty, much of it done jointly with his late collaborator Amos Tversky. He is the author of the bestselling books Thinking, Fast and Slow and Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment (written with Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein).
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