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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Jan Shambaugh, director of the Hamilton Project and senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, joins us to talk about why some counties are championing income equality – and about what struggling countries can do to catch up.
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Joe William Trotter, Jr., director of the Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy at Carnegie Mellon University, joins us to trace the history of black employment, which he writes about in “Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America.”
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Harvard Law professor Susan Crawford joins us to explain why we need to approach fiber with an increased urgency or risk falling behind other developed nations. Her new book is called “Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution – And Why America Might Miss It.”
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Reporter Paul Kiel joins us to discuss how the IRS has been withering away before our eyes for nearly a decade, which he writes about with Jesse Eisinger in their ProPublica article “How the IRS was Gutted.”
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Howard Berkes contributed to a joint Frontline-NPR investigation about how government regulators responded to toxic mine dust and joins us to share stories about miners dying from dirty lungs.
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