In this episode, our guest is a young star economist: Kyle Myers from Harvard Business School! We talked about the current clash between the Trump administration and Harvard, NIH, "Elasticity of Science", Covid, and more!

Current Host: Ruveyda Gozen (@ruveyda_gozen)

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro, Trump, and Harvard 

06:35 “Elasticity” of Science 

20:43 Funding for Science: Is there a better way? 

24:53 Covid and Elasticity of Science 

28:03 Let’s Switch to More Personal Questions! 

30:55 What is Kyle’s Production Function of Research?

34:55 If he couldn’t be an economist, what would he be in a parallel universe?

36:35 What’s something you believe about research or academia that many others in economics don’t agree with?

38:43 “This or That?”

40:13 Never Have I Ever!