The Joe Walker Podcast

Frank Wilczek won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 and is considered one of the world’s most eminent theoretical physicists.

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Benjamin M. Friedman is widely recognised as one of the world's leading macroeconomists. He is currently the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University.

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Joe Henrich is Professor and Chair of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Secret of Our Success and The Weirdest People in the World.

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Sir Angus Deaton is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism.

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David Sloan Wilson is an evolutionary biologist.

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John Hempton is co-founder and Chief Investment Officer at Bronte Capital.

Selected links

• Follow John: Blog | Twitter
• 'Approaches to Studying Policy Representation', paper by David Broockman
• 'Indebted Demand', paper by Atif Mian, Ludwig Straub and Amir Sufi

Topics discussed

• Lessons from past market cycles. 4:51
• Astarra-Trio. 10:43
• Retail investors: Welcome to the party. 24:14
• When John met Jim (Simons). 28:13
• Can you predict market tops? 33:00
• Are there any good reasons for believing this time really is different? 40:37
• The Dunning-Kruger effect is everywhere. 52:18
• A behavioural model of the coronavirus. 55:45
• The illusion of the political centre. 1:10:19
• How inequality may be distorting monetary policy, and vice versa. 1:23:00
• SPAC attack. 1:26:03
• The puzzle of Middleby. 1:31:15
• Bull masturbating. 1:33:01
• 2020: a year of puzzles. 1:42:30

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Gerd Gigerenzer is a German psychologist and director emeritus of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

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David Hirshleifer is a professor of finance and currently holds the Merage chair in Business Growth at the University of California.

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Vernon Smith won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002. This is his second appearance on the show.

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Anne Goldgar is an historian and holds the Van Hunnick Chair in European History at the University of Southern California Dornsife.

Selected links

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• Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden, by Anne Goldgar

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