Joe Walker hosts refreshingly in-depth conversations with founders, scientists, scholars, economists, and public intellectuals. (Formerly 'The Jolly Swagman Podcast'.)
113 episodes transcribedNoam Chomsky is the father of modern linguistics and one of the most cited scholars in modern history. He is also one of the most influential public i...
Sir Paul Collier is a British development economist. He is currently a professor of economics at the University of Oxford and was the Director of the...
Zach Carter is a senior reporter at The Huffington Post and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy and the L...
Robert Plomin is one of the world's leading behavioural geneticists. He is currently MRC Research Professor in Behavioural Genetics at the Institute o...
Jack A. Goldstone is an American sociologist and is widely regarded as one of the world's leading experts on the subject of revolutions.Full transcrip...
Mark Cuban is an American billionaire investor, entrepreneur and TV personality.Full transcript available at: josephnoelwalker.com/mark-cubanSee omnys...
Frank Wilczek won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 and is considered one of the world’s most eminent theoretical physicists.Full transcript availabl...
Benjamin M. Friedman is widely recognised as one of the world's leading macroeconomists. He is currently the William Joseph Maier Professor of Politic...
Joe Henrich is Professor and Chair of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Secret of Our Success and The Weirdest...
Sir Angus Deaton is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism.Read the full transcript at: joseph...
David Sloan Wilson is an evolutionary biologist.Read the full transcript at: https://josephnoelwalker.com/atlashuggedSee omnystudio.com/listener for p...
John Hempton is co-founder and Chief Investment Officer at Bronte Capital.Show notesSelected links Follow John: Blog | Twitter 'Approaches to Studyin...
Gerd Gigerenzer is a German psychologist and director emeritus of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human...
David Hirshleifer is a professor of finance and currently holds the Merage chair in Business Growth at the University of California.See omnystudio.com...
Vernon Smith won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002. This is his second appearance on the show.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy infor...
Anne Goldgar is an historian and holds the Van Hunnick Chair in European History at the University of Southern California Dornsife.Show notesSelected...
Ed Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University.Show notesSelected links Follow Ed: Website 'A Nation Of Gamble...
Martha Olney is an economist and Teaching Professor in Berkeley's Economics Department.Show notesSelected links Follow Martha: Website | Twitter Buy...
Arlie Hochschild is one of the most influential sociologists of the 20th and 21st centuries.Show notesSelected links Follow Arlie: Website Strangers...
Tyler Cowen is an economist and public intellectual par excellence.Show notesSelected links •Follow Tyler: Website | Twitter | Podcast | Blog •Stubbor...
