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The late Robert Solow was a giant among economists. When he was Daron Acemoglu was just awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Yuval Noah Harari has a knack for finding the profound in the obvious. His book Sapiens recounts the history of mankind, ... Here's a quick growth conundrum, to get you thinking. Consider two countries at the close of World War II—Germany and Japan. Something feels fundamentally different about the world today. Political polarization, What do we really learn from failure? Also: What is teasing supposed to accomplish? This episode was originally published March ...

Technology created the middle class and now it is destroying it. A universal basic income could preserve and expand a middle ... What matters more: meeting our own ambitions, or winning fame and glory? What's it like to earn a gold medal at the Olympics? When a Fortune 500 company needs a new leader, it turns to a well-connected headhunter who assesses candidates with ...