Melinda Gates joins us to make the case that providing opportunities to women is the key to bettering society as a whole.
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The American Work Ethic Doesn’t Apply To Everyone
Bryce Covert writes about working life in America, and she joins us to talk about the disconnect in how the American work ethic applies to workers based on the tax bracket they occupy.
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Why Diverse Schools Are Good For Every Kid
Rucker C. Johnson, associate professor in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, explains why students attending integrated schools have historically benefited from learning alongside children from other backgrounds.
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Reclaiming The Economy For The People
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz joins us to talk about fundamental changes that will push markets to work for the people instead of the other way around.
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The Power Of Paying Attention
Jenny Odell joins us to talk about how we should consider the pieces of ourselves we share – and about rethinking what it even means to be productive.
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An Economist’s Guide To Risk
Economist Allison Schrager joins us to talk about real-life examples of when a gamble is worth taking – and when it’s better to stay away. Her new book is called “An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk.”
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How Unqualified Men Get Hired Over Qualified Women
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, professor at University College, London, joins us to discuss how qualities that land people leadership roles – overconfidence, narcissism – are often the same qualities that stand in the way of leadership.
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How Unqualified Men Get Hired Over Qualified Women
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, professor of business psychology at University College, London, joins us to discuss the psychological miscalculations at play with bad hiring decisions.
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Americans Are Retiring With Almost Nothing
UMass-Boston sociology professor Katherine S. Newman joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the likely return of old-age poverty – and about how the country can renew its social contract with seniors.
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Why Your Friends Think Like You
Matthew O. Jackson, William D. Eberle professor of economics at Stanford, joins us to talk about how our social networks act as composites of ourselves – and how they often forecast the paths we’ll take.
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Your City Lost Out On Amazon? You May Have Dodged A Bullet
Pat Garofalo of the Center for American Progress joins host Krys Boyd to talk about how the economic promise of taxpayer subsidies from sports stadiums to movie productions often fails to materialize.
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Who’s The Master Of A.I.?
Amy Webb, professor of strategic foresight at the NYU Stern School of Business and founder of the Future Today Institute, joins us to talk about how nine tech companies first and foremost serve the corporations that created them. Her new book is called “The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans & Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity.”
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