The Chalk And Slate Podcast

Episode 2: The Normal That Wasn't


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William Shakespeare once wrote, ‘What’s past is prologue', and 400 years later the effort is to recognise the past as such. In this episode we let hindsight be our chalk. We trace how 2019 was anything but normal.

Personal reactions to global events and global reactions to personal realities, as it were, we unpackage the slate that is 2019.

Mentions:

1. Good Economics for Hard Times - Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

2. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants - Malcolm Gladwell

3. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics - Richard Thaler

4. The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5. Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman 

6. Shared Reality Theory - Gerald Echterhoff et al. 

7. Collective Consciousness - Emile Durkheim 

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The Chalk And Slate PodcastBy Satchit Nayak And Pratyush Sinha