Ideas at Work with Toby Shannan

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Toby Shannan

6 episodes

1 month ago

Wendy Carlin is Professor of Economics at University College London (UCL) and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). She is leading an international project - the CORE project - to reform the undergraduate economics curriculum. The CORE project has produced an open-access e-book for a first course in economics, which is being used at UCL, Sciences Po, Toulouse School of Economics, Humboldt University and many other universities around the world. Her research focuse...

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Episodes (6/6)

Ideas at Work with Toby Shannan

Ep 6: Wendy Carlin

5 years ago

56 minutes

Ideas at Work with Toby Shannan

Ep 5: David Krakauer

David's research is concerned with the evolutionary history of information processing mechanisms in biology and culture, with an emphasis on robust information transmission, signaling dynamics and their role in constructing novel, higher level features. The research spans several levels of organization finding analogous processes in genetics, cell biology, microbiology and in organismal behavior and society. At the cellular level he has been interested in molecular processes, which rely on vo...

5 years ago

1 hour 37 minutes

Ideas at Work with Toby Shannan

Ep 4: Andrew Mcafee

Andrew McAfee is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Initiative on the Digital Economy and a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He studies how digital technologies are changing the world. His latest book is More From Less: How We Finally Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources - and What Happens Next.

5 years ago

1 hour 32 minutes

Ideas at Work with Toby Shannan

Ep 3: Geoffrey West

Geoffrey is a theoretical physicist whose primary interests have been in fundamental questions in physics, especially those concerning the elementary particles, their interactions and cosmological implications. West served as President for the Santa Fe Institute from 2005 through to 2009. Prior to joining the Santa Fe Institute he was the leader, and founder, of the high energy physics group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is known for his work in describing the universal scaling laws t...

5 years ago

2 hours 10 minutes

Ideas at Work with Toby Shannan

Ep 2: David Sloan Wilson

David Sloan Wilson is an American evolutionary biologist and a Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at Binghamton University.

5 years ago

1 hour 48 minutes

Ideas at Work with Toby Shannan

Ep 1: Jonathan Haidt

Join Toby Shannan as he discusses with Jonathan Haidt what an emerging new normal might be post the Covid-19 crisis. Their broad ranging conversation touches on these topics and more while answering Shopifolk questions submitted via the Askify.

5 years ago

1 hour 34 minutes