Carnival of Podcasts and Talks
Mostly economics, assorted podcasts and talks — majority of it recent ones.
- Shane Parrish — Thriving in a Digital World: My Conversation with Stratechery’s Ben Thompson [The Knowledge Project Ep. #40]
What Ben would teach an MBA class about internet strategy (if you do any business online, you need to hear this)
What it would take for a start-up to overtake Google or Apple, and the vulnerabilities that all companies share, no matter how big or profitable
The new era of technology and how companies like Netflix, Airbnb, and Amazon are doing it right (and what you can do in your own business to take full advantage)
2. Rear Vision looks at the Global Financial Crisis — the GFC — and its legacy.

3. Claire Lehmann on Speaking Freely
COWEN: How has that influenced your work in Quillette, being from Adelaide, in particular?
LEHMANN: Adelaide’s a smaller city, and it was founded by some pioneers who had experimental ideas about social… South Australia was the first state to give women the vote, and there was a visionary architect, a city planner who designed the city.
I think just the fact that it was smaller. Sydney and Melbourne — they’re very competitive cities. Unless you go to a private school, unless you have the right family network, it can be difficult to really be socially mobile.
Adelaide — because it was smaller — all you really had to do was do well in school, get into university, and you could quite easily be socially mobile. It didn’t really matter who your family was and where you came from. I think being a smaller city, it allowed me to be ambitious and to not feel constrained, basically.
4. The David Rubenstein Show: Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President of World Bank
5. Tom Friedman — On Speaking Truth To Power
7. Understanding Incentives, featuring Steven Levitt
8. Economics Amplified: Rick Evans on How Computer Science is Transforming Economics
9. MacroMusings 122 — Sebastian Edwards on FDR, Gold, and the Great Depression
10. Trade Talks Episode 53: Oh NAFTA — It’s Canada’s Turn
11. HOW TO MAKE THE STAR EMPLOYEES YOU NEED — Marissa Mayer,
Lumi Labs, Yahoo, Google
12. Why Hayek Matters with Pete Boettke
13. Your Jobs Questions, Answered — NPR
14. Social media makes us angry and unfocused. Is email the answer?
15. Deep Focus: How healthcare affects the macroeconomy
16. Director’s Cut — The extent of Turkey’s crisis
17. Yoram Hazony on the Virtue of Nationalism
18. Keith Mitchell on Catastrophe Risk Insurance: Time is Not on Our Hands
19. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century- A Conversation with Christine Lagarde and Yuval Noah Harari
20. Reviving the American Dream: Lessons from Big Data