Bretton Goods

Bretton Goods

By Pradyumna PrasadScienceSocial Sciences
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Bretton Goods episodes

  • Ep 27: A Tour through British Economic History

    I talked to Duncan Weldon a former Britain economics correspondent for The Economist and the writer of the substack Value Added. We talked about his book Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through. Topics include

    • How did the road to riches change through centuries?
    • Why does Britain have no tech giants?
    • How did Britain survive with high levels of debt in the past?
    • Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in Britain and not elsewhere?



      • 54 min
    • Ep 26: Housing policy with Sam Bowman

      I talked to Sam Bowman, the Director of competition policy at the Law and Econ Center. He was previously Executive Director of the Adam Smith Institute and has been a constant advocate for saner housing policy. I talked to him about housing policy and adjacent topics:


      • How housing affects everything!
      • How do we incentivize NIMBYs into allowing more building?
      • The most underrated economist
      • Lessons from writing Works in Progress


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        57 min
      • Ep 25: Market Mechanics with Mike Green

        I talked to Michael Green who is Chief Strategist and Portfolio Manager at Simplify ETFs. He previously was Chief Strategist and Portfolio Manager at Logica and even before that he was portfolio manager at Thiel Capital. Mike is extremely smart and very fun to talk to. We had an interesting conversation about

        • How do passive flows change the stock market?
        • How can you trade these with options?
        • Explaining the Gamestop rally in Jan 2021
        • How do you price crypto?
        • Why is his twitter handle profplum99?
        • Why ambitious people should not enter finance


          • 55 min
        • Ep 24: COVID and the FDA with Alex Tabarrok

          I talked to Alex Tabarrok, Professor of Economics at George Mason University about the FDA's response on COVID along with a variety of other topics. We talked about

          • What happens if the public wants an inefficient COVID response?
          • What mistakes did zero-COVID countries make?
          • What are bottlenecks to Indian growth?
          • Why he thinks investing in life extension research gives a very high return?
          • Who is the most underrated economist of the 20th century?


            • 1 hr
          • Ep 23: Monetary policy with Joey Politano

            I spoke to Joey Politano, who writes the popular newsletter Apricitas . We did a deep dive into monetary policy where Joey talked about Quantitative Easing, Yield Curve Control and stablecoins. Other topics include

            • Measuring the stance of monetary policy 
            • Which country would benefit from using dogecoin as currency?
            • What can economists learn from political science
              • 55 min
            • Ep 22: Tom Spencer on the housing crisis, the monarchy, and Brexit

              I talked to Tom Spencer a law student at City Law School and Chief Organizer of London New Liberals. Tom's interests lie on the edge of law and economics where he does work on housing policy and anti trust. We had a lively conversation on

              • Solving the UK's housing crisis
              • What lawyers and economists can learn from each other
              • Brexit and its consequences
              • The unwritten British constitution
              • Abolishing the monarchy
                • 54 min
              • Ep 21: Michael Bishop on replication markets

                I talked to Michael Bishop, who worked at DARPA's Replication Markets project. We talked about

                • Why was there a replication crisis in science?
                • How do you design a market for predicting replication attempts?
                • Is there alpha in replication market trading?
                  • 47 min
                • Ep 20: Kevin Erdmann on the myths about the Great Recession

                  I talked to Kevin Erdmann, a visiting fellow at the Mercatus Center about his upcoming book Building From the Ground Up which is about myths surrounding the housing bubble and the Great Recession. We talked about

                  • The myth of a 'housing bubble'
                  • How American policymakers self induced a recession
                  • His research process

                    • Preorder Keivn's new book here!

                    45 min
                  • Ep 18: Rohit Krishnan on ambition, optionality and venture capital

                    I talked to Rohit Krishnan, a venture capitalist and writer of the newsletter Strange Loop Canon. In my view he is among the most underrated writers in the public sphere today. I talked to him about a variety of topics. They are:


                    • The real meaning of ambition


                      • Why people misunderstand optionality


                        • Rohit’s favourite Indian cuisine


                          • Why you can’t replicate college with internet subcultures


                            • “VC’s biggest competition  is hedge funds”.


                              • Biggest career mistakes people make


                                • Do consultants make good VCs?


                                  • What is VC's biggest competition

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                                    1 hr 22 min

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