From the New World

Tyler Cowen is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and writer of the legendary blog Marginal Revolution alongside Alex Tabarrok. We discuss talent, Ontario, immigrants, institutional trust, power attractors, the Intellectual Dark Web, public health, the internet, generation Z, the significance of social change versus technology, upsides of wokeness, populism, imposter syndrome, self-deception, and corporate hiring.

Marginal Revolution

https://marginalrevolution.com/

Talent by Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross

https://www.amazon.ca/Talent-Identify-Energizers-Creatives-Winners/dp/1250275814

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/tylercowen

From the New World Episode with Zvi Mowshowitz:

https://cactus.substack.com/p/zvi-mowshowitz-how-the-worst-people

From the New World Episode with Robin Hanson:

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Zvi is a COVID forecaster, writer of thezvi blog, and game designer at emergents.

We discuss Magic the Gathering, chess and computability, learning curves, COVID projections, the CDC banning testing, immoral mazes, selection effects, psychological malleability, Robin Hanson and medicine, institutional incentives, egalitarianism, civilizational collapse, populism, libertarianism, and pure math.Note: the timestamps are somewhat inaccurate due to editing and intro.

0:00 MTG

19:00 chess,  computability, and learning

36:30 COVID projections

49:00 CDC banning tests + immoral mazes

57:15 narrative hedging

1:14:05 selection vs. malleability

1:21:20 Robin Hanson and medicine

1:55:00 institution building

2:00:05 egalitarianism and social competition

2:13:30 were we in a golden age?

2:15:30 decivilization

2:18:50 economies of scale

3:03:00 chaos and order

3:14:05 pure math

Zvi’s Blog:

http://thezvi.wordpress.com/

Zvi on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/TheZvi

Episode with Samo Burja:

Episode with Robin Hanson:

CDC banning COVID tests:

https://www.science.org/content/article/united-states-badly-bungled-coronavirus-testing-things-may-soon-improve

Moral Mazes book:

https://www.amazon.ca/Moral-Mazes-Corporate-Managers-Updated/dp/0199729883

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Manny Rinconcruz is a financial historian, a member of the history working group at Standard Hoover Institution, an open source software developer buttonwood foundation (buttonwood.foundation), and the author of the thinking.farm newsletter. His views do not reflect those of his employer.

Manny’s twitter:

https://twitter.com/mrinconcruz

His newsletter:

http://thinking.farm/

Manny and Niall’s piece in the Wall Street Journal:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/stablecoins-infect-financial-markets-janet-yellen-terra-luna-tether-crypto-run-risk-collapse-recession-investment-dollar-stability-inflation-11655057043?mod=article_inline

My thread on populism:

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Rob’s First Episode:

His article on the University of Austin:https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/25/opinion/welcome-alternative-lack-academic-freedom-college-campuses/

His substack:

Jonathan Haidt’s article:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/

My critiques of Haidt:

My discussion with Malcom Kyeyune:

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Alex Nowrasteh is an immigration research and director of economic and social policy studies at the Cato Institute, as well as the author of the book “Wretched Refuse?: The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions”. We discuss immigration, the US legal immigration system, the immigration bureaucracy, appeals to chaos and order, libertarianism, populism, whether politics is driven by ideas or personalities, political violence, and electoral systems. Alex at Cato:https://www.cato.org/people/alex-nowrasteh

Wretched Refuse?: The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions:

https://www.amazon.ca/Wretched-Refuse-Political-Immigration-Institutions/dp/1108702457

Alex on the Fifth Column podcast:https://play.acast.com/s/5c3e264f78c059c75c5e8ccf/607995b1b1d7373173d667fb

My Conversation with Samo Burja:

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Demetri Kofinas is the host of the Hidden Forces podcast. His insightful interviews and commentary on financial markets, commodities, supply chains, and media have been a part of my learning for several months.

The Hidden Forces podcast:

https://hiddenforces.io/

His episode with Doomberg (the most recent out of many):

https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/food-shortages-energy-security-doomberg/

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Freddie Deboer is a writer on substack and a contributor to many publications. He offers a unique perspective, coming from the economic left while seeing through a range of strategic and policy failures. We discuss progressive organizations, doomerism, the politics of recognition, state capacity, patronage systems, civil rights law, housing, monarchy, mental illness, distrust of institutions, and the relationship between the Bernie left and the media.

Freddie on Substack:

Extended bio by Bari Weiss:

Ryan Grim on progressive institutions:

https://theintercept.com/2022/06/13/progressive-organizing-infighting-callout-culture/

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Bohan Lou is a colleague in the UATX summer program, a graduate of Yale University, and a product manager at Lyft. He has interests in religious studies and philosophy.Follow Bohan on twitter: https://twitter.com/loubohan

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Nils is the VP of programs at the Bergruen institute and deputy editor of Noema magazine.

Issues and Timestamps:

0:00 right-wing policy movement

8:30 supreme court

18:54 legitimacy

29:12 right wing postmodernists

32:50 state capacity

52:00 fda and neuroticism

1:39:00 populists right vs. libertarians

153:30 aesthetic preferences

223:00 problems of power analysis

238:00 centralization vs. bureaucracy

3:00:00 politics of recognition

Relevant links:

Nils Gilman on twitter:

https://twitter.com/nils_gilman?

Noema magazine:

https://www.noemamag.com/

https://www.noemamag.com/author/nils-gilman/

Institutionalized with Aaron Sibarium, Charles Fain Lehman, Nils Gilman:

Ezra Klein and Alex Tabarrok on “Supply Side Leftism”:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-interviews-alex-tabarrok.html

Ezra Klein and Patrick Deneen:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-interviews-patrick-deneen.html

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A Solo Discussion of the Podcast’s Past, Motivation, and Strategy.

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