The Joe Walker Podcast

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How Dogma Delayed The Discovery of The Bacterium Behind 5% of All Cancers — Barry Marshall

Australia’s ‘Great Stagnation’: Everything You Need to Know About The Productivity Crisis — Greg Kaplan & Michael Brennan

Francis Fukuyama — AGI and the Recommencement of History

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Laura Deming — On Pausing Biological Time & Preserving the Continuous Self

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Eight Things I Learned From My Aussie Policy Series

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Ken Henry — What Killed the Reform Era? [Aus. Policy Series]

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Sam Roggeveen — Why the US Won't Fight China for Dominance (and What it Means for Australia) [Aus. Policy Series]

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Peter Tulip — What Will It Actually Take to Solve the Housing Crisis? [Aus. Policy Series]

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Judith Brett — How a Benthamite Political Culture Shaped Australia's Electoral System [Aus. Policy Series]

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Richard Holden & Steven Hamilton — How Australia Gets It Done [Aus. Policy Series]

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Andrew Leigh — Inequality and Egalitarianism [Aus. Policy Series]

Abul Rizvi — Inside Immigration Policy [Aus. Policy Series]

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Behind the Scenes of My Interview Research Process — Andy Matuschak Crashes My Crib (#162)

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Eugene Fama — For Whom is the Market Efficient? (#161)

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Richard Butler — Nuclear Diplomacy at the End of History (#160)

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Larry Summers — AGI and the Next Industrial Revolution (#159)

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Nassim Taleb — Meditations on Extremistan (#158)

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Robert Boyd & Peter Richerson — How Ice Age Climate Chaos Made Humans Cultural Animals (#157)

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Lucy Turnbull — Urbanism, YIMBYism, and Solutions to Australia's Housing Crisis (#156: Bonus Live Episode)

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Bryan Caplan — The Economics of Housing Abundance (#155)

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2023 Retrospective — A Listener Interviews Me

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David Deutsch & Steven Pinker (First Ever Public Dialogue) — AGI, P(Doom), and The Enemies of Progress (#153)

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Shruti Rajagopalan — On Spotting Talent, And Making Sense of Rising India (#152)

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Raghuram Rajan — Debt, Monetary Policy, and Unintended Consequences (#151)

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Peter Singer — Moral Truths and Moral Secrets (#150)

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Peter Turchin — Why Societies Fall Apart (And Why the US May Be Next) (#149)

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Stephen Wolfram — Constructing the Computational Paradigm (#148)

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Katalin Karikó — Forging the mRNA Revolution (#147)

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Richard Rhodes — The Making of the Atomic Bomb (#146)

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Ken Henry — An Economic Odyssey (#145)

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Palmer Luckey — Science (Non)fiction (#144)

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Daniel Kahneman — Dyads, And Other Mysteries (#143)

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Talent Is That Which Is Scarce — Tyler Cowen (#142)

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Intellectual Exoskeletons — Andy Matuschak (#141)

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Rationality And Its Opposite — Steven Pinker (#140)

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Against Bayesianism — David Deutsch (#139)

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A Year of Newsletters

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The Lessons Of Afghanistan — William Dalrymple (#138)

The Race That Stopped The Nation — Richard Holden & Steven Hamilton (#137)

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#136: Ergodicity — Ole Peters

#135: The Tyranny Of Merit — Michael Sandel

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#134: The Spectre Of Havoc — Graham Allison

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#133: A General Theory Of Catastrophe – Niall Ferguson

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#132: Policy In An Age Of Politics – John Hewson

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#131: A Practical Guide To Coping With Uncertainty – John Kay

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#130: Is Science Reaching Its Limits? – John Horgan

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#129: Marvellous Melbourne And Australia's Darkest Depression – Graeme Davison

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#128: A Forgotten Genius – Cheryl Misak

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#127: Progress And Planet – Malcolm Turnbull

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#126: The Craft Of Comedy And The Art Of A Lasting Partnership – Andy Lee

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#125: The Reign Of Keynes, Part II – Lord Robert Skidelsky

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#124: Recollections Of A Wild Man In The Wings – Noam Chomsky

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#123: There Is Such A Thing As Society – Sir Paul Collier

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#122: The Reign Of Keynes, Part I – Zach Carter

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#121: The Doyen Of Behavioural Genetics On Untangling Nature And Nurture – Robert Plomin

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#120: The Republic Is In Peril – Jack A. Goldstone

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#119: Hard–Earned Lessons From A Maverick Who Made It – Mark Cuban

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#118: The Wisdom Of Frank Wilczek

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#117: The Moral Causes And Consequences Of Economic Growth – Benjamin M. Friedman

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#116: The Indiana Jones Of Anthropology On The Origins Of Western Psychology – Joe Henrich

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#115: Deaths Of Despair And The Future Of Capitalism – Angus Deaton

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#114: On Ayn Rand, Cooperation, And Successful Societies – David Sloan Wilson

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#113: What I Learned In 2020 – John Hempton

Rational Minds Part 5: Heuristics Make Us Smart – Gerd Gigerenzer

Rational Minds Part 4: The Blind Leading The Blind – David Hirshleifer

Rational Minds Part 3: Rethinking Bubbles – Vernon Smith

Rational Minds Part 2: The Myth Of Tulip Mania – Anne Goldgar

Rational Minds Part 1: A Nation Of Gamblers – Ed Glaeser

#107: The Roaring Twenties And The Birth Of Consumer Credit – Martha Olney

#105: Despair And Indignation Among The American White Working Class – Arlie Hochschild

#104: Back To The Future – Tyler Cowen

#103: A Labor Intellectual's Plan To Rebraid Our Frayed Social Fabric – Andrew Leigh

#102: Frauds And Visionaries – Bethany McLean

#101: The Rise And Fall Of Monetary Policy – Ian Macfarlane

#100: An Ode To The Uncorrelated Thinker – Eric Weinstein

#99: Housing Bubble Week Epilogue: Not All Bubbles Are Created Equal – Vernon Smith

#98: The Meaning Of Human Existence, And The Search For Alien Life – Avi Loeb

#97: Of Viruses And Vaccines – Peter Doherty

#96: The Housing Supply Myth – Cameron Murray & Ian Mulheirn

#95: Inside Humanity's Infinite Improbability Drive – Matt Ridley

#94: Radical Uncertainty – Mervyn King

#93: The Doyen Of Economics Podcasting On Death, Lockdown, And The Art Of Socratic Dialogue – Russ Roberts

#92: The Life And Times Of A Thoroughly liberal Prime Minister – Malcolm Turnbull

#91: How To Put The Economy Into A Coma – Chris Edmond & Steve Hamilton

#90: The Price Of Uncertainty – Chris Joye

#89: How An Italian Town Conquered Coronavirus – Andrea Crisanti

#88: A (New) Darwinian Left – Peter Singer (Live In Melbourne)

#87: In The Foothills Of A Pandemic – Yaneer Bar–Yam

#86: Coronavirus, Covert Influence, And Cold War II – Kevin Rudd

#85: The Evolution Of A Renegade – David Sloan Wilson

#84: The Intellectual Wild South – Eric Weinstein

#83: The Silent Hero Of The Australian Economy – Ian Macfarlane

#82: The Modern Empiricist Proving Old Wisdom On Household Debt And Recession – Amir Sufi

#81: How To Build A Future More Like Star Trek Than Terminator – Andrew Leigh

#80: The Untold Tale of How One Ruthless Company Subjugated a Subcontinent – William Dalrymple

#79: On Radical Uncertainty, "Phantastic Objects", and Blowing Bubbles – David Tuckett

#78: Lifting the Veil on Sydney's Crime and Skulduggery – Kate McClymont

#77: Markets and The Madness of Crowds – Robert Shiller

#76: The Dogged Journalist Who (May Have) Pricked a Property Bubble – Adele Ferguson

#75: The World According to a Maverick, Beach–Biding Stock Picker – John Hempton

#74: Xi Loves Us, Xi Loves Us Not? – Kevin Rudd

#72: The Leader Of The Free World Is A Malignant Narcissist With Pre–Dementia – John Gartner

#71: Housing Bubble Week Finale: It's The Housing Cycle, Stupid! – Ed Leamer

#70: Housing Bubble Week: Getting Things Done in Western Sydney – John Hempton

#69: Housing Bubble Week: A Philosophy of Bubbles – Timo Henckel

#68: Housing Bubble Week: Speculation and Unchartered Waters – Chris Joye

#67: Housing Bubble Week: Housing Bubbles as Availability Cascades – Timur Kuran

#66: Housing Bubble Week: Lessons From Amsterdam’s ‘Gentlemen’s Canal’ – Piet Eichholtz

#65: Housing Bubble Week: Can We Predict Housing Bubbles? – Dean Baker

#64: ‘Housing Bubble Week’ & Joe’s Speech to Mensa

#63: Doing Good Better – Will MacAskill

#62: The Evolution Of Bret Weinstein

#61: The Three Big Lies Poisoning Young Minds – Jonathan Haidt

#60: On Recessions – Andrew Charlton

#58: When The Sky Fell In – Kevin Rudd

#57: The Man Who Defied Europe – Yanis Varoufakis

#53: Where Venture Capital Meets Social Purpose – May Samali

#52: A Short Story of Everything – David Christian

#51: The Art/Science of a High Impact Career – Rob Wiblin

#50: The Brave Cookie Monster – Brendan Eich

#49: The Legendary, Fraud–Sniffing Short Seller - Marc Cohodes

#48: My Friend Richard, and Theories of the Universe – Leonard Susskind

#47: The Shape of Probability – Harry Crane

#46: How Peter Thiel Destroyed Gawker – Ryan Holiday