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Get insights on the President's polling 100 days in and how Americans view crucial domestic issues.  The Administration's approval rating has declined from 51% to 45% since Inauguration Day, but that's relatively in line with historical precedent. What does the President's polling tell us about the American public today—and how they might vote in the 2026 midterms?  Join Steve Odland and guest Clifford Young, president of polling and societal trends at Ipsos, to explore the President's polling versus his first term, the nuances of polling on immigration and taxes, and why domestic issues matter more to Americans than foreign affairs.    (00:55) Themes in Recent Polls: Trepidation and the President (02:22) The Administration's Approval Ratings and Public Perception (07:15) Consumer Confidence and Economic Behavior (13:46) Geopolitical Issues and Immigration For more from The Conference Board:  The Next One Hundred Days—and Beyond: What Lies Ahead  Navigating Washington: Insights for Business  Unpacking 2024's Election Polling with Ipsos' Clifford Young 

Lässt sich die Liebe durch Lust auf Sex steigern? 8 Impulse, mit denen das gelingen kann. Am Anfang der Liebe ist alles einfach. Man trägt die rosarote Brille, ist auf Wolke 7. Doch dann kommt die Gewohnheit, der Rausch lässt nach. Alltag, Stress, Kinder, Job, die Liebe hat es schwer und oft erleben Paare, dass es dann auch mit dem Sex nicht mehr läuft wie früher, was wiederum die Liebe in Gefahr bringen kann. Wir klären in dieser Folge, wie das anders geht Fühlt euch gut betreut Leon & Atze VVK Münster 2025: https://betreutes-fuehlen.ticket.io/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leonwindscheid/ https://www.instagram.com/atzeschroeder_offiziell/ Der Instagram Account für Betreutes Fühlen: https://www.instagram.com/betreutesfuehlen/ Mehr zu unseren Werbepartnern findet ihr hier: https://linktr.ee/betreutesfuehlen Tickets: Atze: https://www.atzeschroeder.de/#termine Leon: https://leonwindscheid.de/tour/ Quellen: Die Übersichtsarbeit: Birnbaum, G. E., & Muise, A. (2025). The interplay between sexual desire and relationship functioning. Nature Reviews Psychology. Die Studie zu Sexueller Zufriedenheit und Zufriedenheit mit der Beziehung über die Zeit: Quinn-Nilas, C. (2020). Relationship and sexual satisfaction: A developmental perspective on bidirectionality. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 37(2), 624-646. Meta-Analyse zu Unterschieden im Sex Drive bei Männern und Frauen: Frankenbach, J., Weber, M., Loschelder, D. D., Kilger, H., & Friese, M. (2022). Sex drive: Theoretical conceptualization and meta-analytic review of gender differences. Psychological Bulletin. Die Studie zu “Das Verlangen muss vielleicht gar nicht gleich sein”: Kim, J. J., Muise, A., Barranti, M., Mark, K. P., Rosen, N. O., Harasymchuk, C., & Impett, E. (2021). Are couples more satisfied when they match in sexual desire? New insights from response surface analyses. Social Psychological and Personality Science. Wer beim Sex das Wohl des Partners UND sein eigenes im Blick hat, erlebt mehr Lust und Zufriedenheit in der Beziehung: Muise, A., Impett, E. A., & Desmarais, S. (2013). Getting it on versus getting it over with: Sexual motivation, desire, and satisfaction in intimate bonds. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Mehr als 1x die Woche Sex: Was bringt es? Muise, A., Schimmack, U., & Impett, E. A. (2016). Sexual frequency predicts greater well-being, but more is not always better. Social Psychological and Personality Science. Doppelt so viel Sex nach Aufforderung durch Forschende: Loewenstein, G., Krishnamurti, T., Kopsic, J., & Mcdonald, D. (2015). Does increased sexual frequency enhance happiness?. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 116, 206-218. Und die Interviews zu dieser Studie: https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2015/may/more-sex-does-not-lead-to-happiness.html Redaktion: Leon Windscheid Produktion: Murmel Productions

Callum Williams is a senior economics writer for The Economist. He was educated at Oxford, Harvard, and Cambridge, and is the author of The Classical School: The Birth of Economics in 20 Enlightened Lives.(00:00) - Introduction (02:07) - US-Russia Relations (03:18) - Trump and US Foreign Policy (05:30) - Sanctions and Their Impact on Russia (09:28) - Economic Resilience and Sanctions Evasion (14:14) - Historical Context and Predictions (29:37) - US Wealth Inequality (40:37) - Debating Wealth Inequality and Welfare States (42:35) - Homelessness and Government Intervention (45:18) - Employment Rates and Economic Behavior (50:12) - San Francisco's Homelessness Crisis (53:46) - US vs. Europe: Economic Divergence (01:06:06) - Cultural Differences in Economic Growth (01:10:48) - AI and Job Market Transformation (01:13:50) - Challenges in AI Adoption (01:15:16) - Consumer vs. Business Tech Adoption (01:15:56) - Slow AI Integration in Businesses (01:17:34) - AI in Customer Service (01:23:48) - Resistance to AI (01:26:36) - AI and Productivity (01:37:35) - Debates on Technological Progress Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.–Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (SuperFocus.ai, SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU.

The board game Go has more possible board configurations than there are atoms in the universe.Because of that seemingly infinite complexity, developing software that could master Go has long been a goal of the AI community.In 2016, researchers at Google's DeepMind appeared to meet the challenge. Their Go-playing AI defeated one of the best Go players in the world, Lee Sedol.After the match, Lee Sedol retired, saying that losing to an AI felt like his entire world was collapsing.He wasn't alone. For a lot of people, the game represented a turning point – the moment where humans had been overtaken by machines.But Frank Lantz saw that game and was invigorated. Lantz is a game designer (his game “Hey Robot” is a recurring feature on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon), the director of the NYU game center, and the author of The Beauty of Games. He's spent his career thinking about how technology is changing the nature of games – and what we can learn about ourselves when we sit down to play them.Mentioned:“AlphaGo”“The Beauty of Games” by Frank Lantz“Adversarial Policies Beat Superhuman Go AIs” by Tony Wang Et al.“Theory of Games and Economic Behavior” by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern“Heads-up limit hold'em poker is solved” by Michael Bowling Et al.Further Reading:“How to Play a Game” by Frank Lantz“The Afterlife of Go” by Frank Lantz“How A.I. Conquered Poker” by Keith Romer“In Two Moves, AlphaGo and Lee Sedol Redefined the Future” by Cade MetzHey Robot by Frank LantzUniversal Paperclips by Frank Lantz

Alex speaks with Nimish Adhia about the practice of tipping, exploring its cultural and economic implications, as well as its persistence despite widespread criticism from various stakeholders. Adhia discusses the historical origins of tipping, its impact on workers and customers, and coordination problems that prevent its abolition, referencing his own case study on the topic. References "How can U.S. restaurants break free from tipping? : finding a pay structure that works" by Nimish Adhia Link: https://search.library.yale.edu/new_arrivals/17396768  "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" by Adam Smith Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Theory-Moral-Sentiments-Adam-Smith/dp/0143105922 "Coordination Problems and Economic Behavior" by Thomas Schelling Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Strategy-Conflict-Thomas-C-Schelling/dp/0674840313 "The Economics of Social Norms" by Elinor Ostrom Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Governing-Commons-Evolution-Institutions-Collective/dp/1107569788 "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference" by Malcolm Gladwell Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Tipping-Point-Little-Things-Difference/dp/0316346624 "The Coordination Problem in Policy Reforms" by Mancur Olson Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Rise-Decline-Nations-Stagflation-Rigidities/dp/0300030797 Thanks to our patrons including: Amy Willis, Kris Rondolo, and Christopher McDonald. To become a patron, go to patreon.com/curioustask

Send us a Text Message.The Game theory was first developed in 1944 by mathematician John von Neumann and economist Oskar Morgenstern in their book The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. The three basic elements of any game are: A set of participants, or "players." The moves, or "actions," that each player may make. The scores, or "payoffs," that each player earns at the end of the game. Simply put, how your daily decisions affects those around you. Today, society is working against the game theory. We've lost the value we once placed on relationships. We are most successful when you do life with others. The greatest hedge when it all goes down is having relationships. Today everything is transactional. We insta cart, don't ask for help and our excuse is we don't want to be a burden. A gift is giving someone the opportunity to help and we've stripped that from people. The game theory has more so developed in us a different approach to life -- doing life as business and relationships are secondary. We've lost it. Today's Sponsor:EveryLife — the only premium baby brand that is unapologetically pro-life. EveryLife offers high-performing, supremely soft diapers and wipes that protect and celebrate every precious life. Head to https://EveryLife.com and use promo code VASHTI10 to get 10% off your first order today!Seven Weeks Coffee — Seven Weeks is a pro-life coffee company with a simple mission: DONATE 10% of every sale to pregnancy care centers across America. Get your organically farmed and pesticide-free coffee at https://sevenweekscoffee.com and let your coffee serve a greater purpose. Use the promo code VASHTI10 to save 10% off your order.Lovevery —  Lovevery's goal is to help every parent feel confident. Their play products are designed by child development experts and distilled to their simplest, purest purpose: to be exactly what children need at each stage. Support your child's developing brain with stage-based play designed by experts delivered to your door. Use this unique link and order today: lovevery.pxf.io/angG4bShop:PureJoy&Co. —  https://purejoyandco.etsy.comKantoShark - https://kantoshark.comSupport the Show.

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for June 26, 2024 is: zero-sum • ZEER-oh-SUM • adjective Zero-sum describes something, such as a game, mentality, or situation, in which any gain corresponds directly with an equivalent loss. // Dividing up the budget is a zero-sum game. See the entry > Examples: “Domestic migration is zero-sum, meaning a loss of college graduates prized by local officials and tax collectors in Washington or San Francisco can be a gain for Kansas City or Orlando.” — Josh Katz, The New York Times, 15 May 2023 Did you know? Does game theory sound like fun? It can be—if you are a mathematician or economist who needs to analyze a competitive situation in which the outcome is determined by the choices of the players and chance. Game theory was introduced by mathematician John von Neumann and economist Oskar Morgenstern in their 1944 book The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. In game theory, a zero-sum game is one, such as chess or checkers, where each player has a clear purpose that is completely opposed to that of the opponent. In economics, a situation is zero-sum if the gains of one party are exactly balanced by the losses of another and no net gain or loss is created; however, such situations in real life are rare.

Can a single $100 bill solve an entire town's debt crisis? This riddle is a window into transaction costs. I rely on Jeffrey Rogers Hummel's insights, adding a few thoughts of my own. And a cool letter: Ever wondered why you haggle for a car but not for your morning Starbucks's coffee?  Plus, a book recommendation: Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps' "My Journeys in Economic Theory," a compelling read that blends economic insights with political theory.Links:David Henderson gives a statement of "the riddle"J.R. Hummel's web siteSimilar story, from LvMIHaggling:Sebastian Schweighofer-Kodritsch, "The Bargaining Trap," Games and Economic Behavior, November 2022, v. 136, pp. 249-54.Book recommendation:Edmund Phelps, My Journeys in Economic Theory.  Columbia University Press.  https://cup.columbia.edu/book/my-journeys-in-economic-theory/9780231207300 If you have questions or comments, or want to suggest a future topic, email the show at taitc.email@gmail.com ! You can follow Mike Munger on Twitter at @mungowitz

While Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is still the most widely accepted, it may be missing a key component: cooperation. And how can mathematical equations help us understand this fundamental piece of evolutionary biology? Martin Nowak is a professor of mathematics and biology at Harvard University. His books like, Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life and SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed use the intersection of mathematics and biology to delve deeper into our understanding of evolution theory. His latest book, Beyond, is an exploration of how mathematics and religion are intertwined.  Martin and Greg discuss the five mechanisms of cooperation including direct and indirect reciprocity, how game theory evolved from economics as a way to explain strategic decisions of humans, and the role of religion and spirituality in promoting cooperative norms.*unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.*Episode Quotes:To what extent is punishment necessary to keep cooperation going?27:38: ​​Punishment, if you really think about it, is a terrible idea. Because, in most cases, punishment is not done for any noble reason. In most cases, punishment is just an act of violence. And every well-ordered society absolutely wants to make sure that people don't take the law into their own hands — that they just don't punish others. This is, for me, the principle of a functioning society: that we do not punish each other. So, for me, cooperation often means to refrain from punishment. And punishment is a very dangerous weapon. And I think many people have actually understood that critique — that punishment between individuals is a bad idea. And then they are still out there to say that it could be more useful if punishment is done by institutions. But also here, I'm very cautious. Because institutions are also not necessarily the best players all the time. They are the powerful players, and they could also use it inappropriately. So, I think that punishment is extremely problematic.Does mathematics lead us to God?43:47: It is not true that science explains everything. And now you should pause and ask yourself, so there is something which is independent of science, which is deep truth, which is absolute truth, which is unchanging truth. Where does that live? You know, where is that actually, if it's not in the atoms, if it's not in this, in the material world? So, this leads us to mathematical platonism. So, for me, mathematics is a step toward spirituality. It's a step toward the divine, as you say. And so, does mathematics lead us to God? Yes. The answer is yes, in my opinion, because it leads to a platonic heaven. And that is already the step of God. Does biology lead to God? Yes. Also because, in biology, the best understanding of evolution is mathematical. And so again, you need mathematics in order to understand evolution.What is the mechanism of direct reciprocity?15:12: The idea here is that, yes, interactions are repeated, but not necessarily between the same two people. So, I might help somebody who is a complete stranger. Or, in my class, I often talk about the New York subway hero, this brave man who saved another person who fell in front of the train. And, sort of, this isn't really the beginning of a long, repeated game. So, the question is, why do we have this instinct that we want to help? Even if it is with somebody we don't know, presumably a direct interaction is unlikely. And here, the proposal is that this works because of reputation. So, you help somebody, and that gets you the reputation of a valuable member, which is a person who receives help. Or, you refuse help to somebody, and that then will earn you other refusals in the future.Transcending the ego to unveil the nameless self50:05: Once you start to love the divine, you treat people differently; it becomes embracing. And so, if you also start to learn the difference between the ego and the self, there's this shell, and we are enslaved by the shell. And this shell has a name. And that name—we want to make that name famous. Then, we are sad if other people are against us. But inside us, there is the self. And the self is nameless, and the self is untouchable. The self can only be touched by us, not by othersShow Links:Recommended Resources:Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by John von Neumann and Oskar MorgensternJohn Maynard SmithEvolutionary Games and Population Dynamics by Josef Hofbauer and Karl SigmundW. D. HamiltonNoam ChomskyWesley Autrey“Winners Don't Punish” by Anna Dreber, David Rand, Drew Fudenberg, and Martin NowakError catastropheGuest Profile:Faculty Profile at Harvard UniversityProfessional WebsiteHis Work:Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of LifeSuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to SucceedBeyondVirus dynamics: Mathematical principles of immunology and virologyEvolution, Games, and God: The Principle of Cooperation

Mista lysten? Det er klart for Dr. Brochmanns redningsaksjon for sex.Dagens gjest er psykolog og forfatter Sissel Gran.Kilder:● Emily Nagoski. Kom som du er. Kagge forlag, 2018.● Brochmann & Dahl. Den nye Gleden med skjeden. Aschehoug, 2023.● Lucy Cook. Bitch – On the Female of the Species. Basic Books, 2022.● Wellings et al. “Changes in, and factors associated with, frequency of sex in Britain: evidence from three National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal).” BMJ 2019.● Herbenick et al. “Changes in Penile-Vaginal Intercourse Frequency and Sexual Repertoire from 2009 to 2018.” Arch Sex Behav, 2022.● Twenge, Sherman & Wells. “Declines in sexual frequency among American adults, 1989–2014.” Arch Sex Behav, 2017.● Wellings et al. "We're Just Tired": Influences on Sexual Activity Among Male-Partnered Women in Midlife.” The Journal of Sex Research, 2023. ● Peggy J. Kleinplatz. History of the Treatment of Female Sexual Dysfunction(s). Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 2018.● Muise, Schimmack & Impett. “Sexual frequency predicts greater well-being, but more is not always better.” Soc Psychol Personal Sci, 2016.● Loewenstein et al. “Does Increased Sexual Frequency Enhance Happiness?” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2015.● Olivia Waxman. “A Little Package of Dynamite.' The Things People Said About Viagra When It Was Released 20 Years Ago” Time Magazine, 2018.

Welcome to another enlightening episode of "Money Grows On Trees" Podcast, where your host, Lloyd Ross, delves into the "5 Financial Traps to Avoid." In this episode, Lloyd generously shares insights on common financial blunders that can severely hinder your economic growth and how to steer clear of them. Discover why marrying the right person goes beyond love to impact your finances, how credit card debt can spiral out of control, and the real cost of large mortgages that exceed your financial comfort zone. Lloyd also discusses the depreciating trap of buying new cars and underscores the critical importance of maintaining an emergency fund. If you've ever found yourself worried about making financial decisions that could lead to regret, this episode is packed with actionable advice to keep your finances secure and growing. Tune in to equip yourself with the knowledge to sidestep these pitfalls and safeguard your financial future. Don't forget to check out the additional resources linked in the episode notes to further your financial education. Join us on "Money Grows On Trees," where we help you ensure that your money works as hard for you as you do for it. Click to listen now!

In this episode, Nick and Chris discuss their hiatus and receive feedback on their Match Day episode. They then introduce John von Neumann, a mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, and polymath who made significant contributions to game theory. We discuss his biography, academic career, and collaborations with other intellectual giants. They highlight his work on the Manhattan Project and his obsession with game theory. The episode concludes with a humorous anecdote about von Neumann's clap back to his wife. This conversation explores the perspectives and contributions of John von Neumann, a mathematician and physicist known for his work in game theory and nuclear deterrence. Von Neumann's view of chess as a well-defined form of computation is discussed, highlighting the distinction between strategy and tactics. We also delves into the mechanical properties of the universe and the role of bluffing and deception in chess and real life. Von Neumann's life's work in game theory, including the mini max theory and the cake distribution problem, is explored. Additionally, his involvement in missile development and his impact on national defense strategy are examined. The conversation concludes by addressing some unsavory aspects of von Neumann's life. Takeaways John von Neumann was a brilliant mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist who made significant contributions to game theory. He collaborated with other intellectual giants, such as Einstein and Bohr, and played a key role in the Manhattan Project. Von Neumann's work on game theory revolutionized the field and has applications in economics, decision-making, and military strategy. His obsession with game theory led him to develop groundbreaking concepts and models. Despite his brilliance, von Neumann had a humorous side, as seen in his clap back to his wife. Chess can be seen as a well-defined form of computation, while real life involves bluffing and deception. Game theory provides a framework for decision-making and optimizing strategies in various situations. Von Neumann's work in game theory and nuclear deterrence had a significant impact on national defense strategies. The distinction between strategy and tactics is crucial in understanding complex systems and decision-making. Von Neumann's contributions to mathematics and physics continue to shape our understanding of the world. Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Welcome Back 01:04 Discussion on Medical Match Day 05:49 Feedback on Match Day Episode 07:11 Introduction to John von Neumann 09:17 Biographical Information on John von Neumann 11:31 Contributions of John von Neumann 20:27 Collaboration with Other Intellectual Giants 24:29 Casual Conversations with Einstein and Bohr 25:22 Obsession with Game Theory 26:15 Von Neumann's Clap Back 26:51 Von Neumann's Perspective on Chess and Games 27:43 The Intellectual Period and the Predictability of the Universe 29:06 Mechanical Properties of the Universe 30:03 Chess as a Well-Defined Form of Computation 31:28 Bluffing and Deception in Chess and Real Life 33:09 The Role of Game Theory in Decision-Making 34:35 Von Neumann's Life's Work: Mini Max Theory 37:07 The Cake Distribution Problem 41:57 Von Neumann's Work on Nuclear Deterrence 46:01 Von Neumann's Role in Missile Development 51:45 Von Neumann's Distinction Between Strategy and Tactics 57:23 Unsavory Aspects of Von Neumann's Life Links: John von Neumann Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann Minimax Theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax_theorem#cite_note-1 Theory of Games and Economic Behavior: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691130613/theory-of-games-and-economic-behavior Klara Dan von Neumann: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_D%C3%A1n_von_Neumann#:~:text=Kl%C3%A1ra%20D%C3%A1n%20von%20Neumann%20(born,style%20code%20on%20a%20computer. Reddit Thread on JVN's Contribution to the Nash Equilibrium https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/kkvz9e/how_exactly_did_nashs_paper_on_game_theory_differ/?rdt=62998&onetap_auto=true --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gametheory/message

More transactions? More users? More fees? Zero Knowledge-based Rollups might be the holy grail of scaling solutions Bitcoiners are looking for. We sit down with Orkun Kılıç of Chainway Labs to discuss the latest in ZKRs. 00:00:00 Start 00:01:00 Introducing Organ Kilic from Citrea 00:02:18 Organ's Background in Crypto 00:04:48 Citrea's Focus on ZK Rollups 00:09:45 Funding and Team Expansion 00:10:23 Open Sourcing Code and Testnet Plans 00:14:18 Rollups vs. Sidechains 00:20:14 Citrea's Trust-Minimized Approach 00:26:24 BitVM and ZK Proofs 00:31:32 Interoperability and Fractal Scaling 00:38:23 Citrea's Stance on Tokenization 00:40:40 Organ's Thoughts on Covenants & CCTV 00:42:47 Mining Pools and Merged Mining 00:45:10 Neutrality and Economic Behavior of Miners Please subscribe to our newsletter: https://blockspace.beehiiv.com/subscribe Questions or want to sponsor? william@blockspace.media

How can economics empower individuals? This week, Roger Ream is joined by Peter Boettke, Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University and former professor for TFAS Prague, to unravel the impact of teaching economics beyond mere equations. To illustrate economic theory's relevance and its potential to shape a brighter future, Peter covers a broad range of subjects including the significance of the Austrian economics tradition, the economic transformation of Estonia and the dangers of socialist policies. Peter also shares how his own career shaped his belief that economics can serve as a tool for the curious and a discipline for the compassionate.  Peter Boettke is the author of several books, including “F. A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy and Social Philosophy” and “Living Economics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.” Peter is also the co-editor of the economics textbook originally by Paul Heyne, “The Economic Way of Thinking.” Recently, he authored a substantial portion of the Fraser Institute series called “The Realities of Socialism.” TFAS's high school division, the Foundation for Teaching Economics (FTE), is turning that series into curriculum for high schools in the U.S. and Canada. Peter serves as editor of The Review of Austrian Economics and associate editor of The Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. He is the recipient of multiple academic awards including the Golden Dozen Award for Excellence in Teaching. The Liberty + Leadership Podcast is hosted by TFAS president Roger Ream and produced by Podville Media. If you have a comment or question for the show, please email us at podcast@TFAS.org. To support TFAS and its mission, please visit TFAS.org/support.Support the show

This episode asks why are women disadvantaged in the workplace? Experts explore why women are underrepresented in certain professions. Why is the motherhood wage gap so persistent? How does flexible work impact women's careers? And what does policy need to do to reduce gender inequalities in the workplace?Podcast host, Rory Cellan-Jones (former technology correspondent for the BBC), discusses these issues with leading academics Emmanuelle Auriol (IAST), Nina Jörden (Bennett Institute for Public Policy) and Francesca Barigozzi (University of Bologna). Season 3 Episode 6 transcriptFor more information about the podcast and the work of the institutes, visit our websites at https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/ and https://www.iast.fr/.Tweet us with your thoughts at @BennettInst and @IASToulouse.With thanks to:Audio production by Steve HankeyAssociate production by Stella ErkerVisuals by Tiffany NaylorMore information about our host and guests:Rory Cellan-Jones was a technology correspondent for the BBC. His 40 years in journalism have seen him take a particular interest in the impact of the internet and digital technology on society and business. He has also written multiple books, including “Always On” (2021) and “Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC” (2023). Emmanuelle Auriol is a full professor at Toulouse School of Economics. Her work, which combines theoretical and empirical approaches, focuses on industrial organization and development economics. She is the author of two award-winning books and a fellow of different scientific societies. Francesca Barigozzi is a Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics of the University of Bologna. She is an applied microtheorist and her fields of research include family economics, public economics, information economics, health economics, and behavioral economics. She holds a PhD in Economics from Toulouse School of Economics. Nina Jörden is a research associate at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy and a member of The Productivity Institute. Her work focuses on questions about the future of work in the public and private sectors. Relevant linksAuriol, E., Friebel, G., Weinberger, A., & Wilhelm, S. (2022). Underrepresentation of women in the economics profession more pronounced in the United States compared to heterogeneous Europe. PNAS.Barigozzi, F., Cremer, H., & Roeder, K. (2020). Having it all, for all: child-care subsidies and income distribution reconciled. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 176, 188-211.Barigozzi, F., Di Timoteo, C., & Monfardini, C. (2023). The Gender Gaps in Time-Use Within Italian Households During 2002–2014. Italian Economic Journal, 9(3), 1263-1296.Barigozzi, F., Cremer, H., & Roeder, K. (2020). Caregivers in the family: daughters, sons and social norms. European Economic Review, 130, 103589.Barigozzi, F., Cremer, H., & Monfardini, C. (2019). The gender gap in informal child care: theory and some evidence from Italy.

How are you really doing? In these trying times, everyone is struggling with something behind the scenes. So, how do we make the most of life knowing the uncertainties? What does it mean to live a full life? How can we achieve this? With the only constant in life being change, here are a few tips to help you live your best life! Want to know what bad habits to avoid instead? We also made a video on the habits that would damage your life: https://youtu.be/-FAU9BKvb08 Original article - https://psych2go.net/8-habits-to-help-you-live-your-best-life/ Writer: Lily Mentriko Script Editor: Vanessa Tao Script Manager: Kelly Soong VO: Amanda Silvera Animator: Naphia YouTube Manager: Cindy Cheong References: Stanford. (2016, April 16). Media Multitaskers Pay Mental Price. Stanford News. https://news.stanford.edu/2009/08/24/multitask-research-study-082409/. Cobb-Clark, D. A., Kassenboehmer, S. C., & Schurer, S. (2013, November 22). Healthy habits: The Connection Between Diet, Exercise, and Locus of Control. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167268113002837 Veenhoven, R. (1996, January 1). The Study of Life-Satisfaction. Department of Sociology. https://repub.eur.nl/pub/16311/. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/psych2go_tips/ Discord: https://discord.gg/EsWEvrJ Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkJEpR7JmS36tajD34Gp4VA/join Would you like to animate for the team? Check out this: https://psych2go.net/interested-in-animating-for-pych2go-faq/ Interested in writing for psych2go? Check out: https://psych2go.net/script-writing-position-faqs/

Today, let us unravel the complexities of charitable email campaigns and donor engagement. Also, let us explore the findings of groundbreaking experiments conducted on warm donor lists, offering a fresh perspective on the delicate balance between reminders, cognitive dissonance, and donor satisfaction! Our guest, Christina Gravert, an accomplished behavioral economist, is an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen's Department of Economics. Specializing in environmental sustainability, health, and charitable giving, she investigates the intricacies of human decision-making to promote societal welfare. With tenure and affiliations with the Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI), Christina also directs the Copenhagen Experimental Laboratory. Her impactful research, rooted in evidence-based decision-making, contributes to understanding how individuals can be nudged toward socially responsible choices. As a CESifo Research Network Affiliate and advisory board member of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics, Christina's work extends beyond academia, actively addressing pressing societal challenges. Also, she co-founded Impactually, a consultancy specializing in behavioral science. In this episode, you will be able to:  Analyze the impact of timing, content variation, and affirming language on donor behavior. Evaluate the nuances involved in crafting effective communication strategies for charitable campaigns. Assess the potential benefits of additional reminders for engaged but hesitant donors. Explore the psychology of donor decision-making and consider personalized approaches to enhance the donor experience. Examine how strategic timing can alleviate potential barriers to donor engagement. Identify practical takeaways for optimizing email strategies in the context of donor engagement for nonprofits, charities, and fundraisers. Get all the resources from today's episode here.  Support for this show is brought to you by Instil. Our friends at Instil really understand what it means to build and manage relationships in a holistic and human-first way. The platform's advanced UX design and real-time analytics smooth donor management to make it easy for you to connect every supporter to the impact of your work. To learn more head on over to www.instil.io/mallory. Connect with me: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatthefundraising_ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthefundraising YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@malloryerickson7946 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/mallory-erickson-bressler/ Website: malloryerickson.com/podcast Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-the-fundraising/id1575421652 If you haven't already, please visit our new What the Fundraising community forum. Check it out and join the conversation at this link. If you're looking to raise more from the right funders, then you'll want to check out my Power Partners Formula, a step-by-step approach to identifying the optimal partners for your organization. This free masterclass offers a great starting point

In dieser Folge sprechen Franzi und Dinah darüber, ob Sidar das Allheilmittel für body-image issue von Frauen gefunden hat, wir redn über Selbstwert, und ob es eine gute Idee ist peniswitze zu machen. Wir freuen uns einerseits, dass durch die Kostümparty in bisschen Fahrt in die Show kommt und schauen uns an, ob die Wissenschaft vielleicht eine Erklärung hat dafür hat wieso Kostüme Menschen hemmungsloser machen. Im Anschluss zerstören wir die gute Stimmung aber direkt wieder in dem wir über die negativen Aspekte von Kostümen reden. Lennon, S. J., Zheng, Z., & Fatnassi, A. (2016). Women's revealing Halloween costumes: other-objectification and sexualization. Fashion and Textiles, 3(1), 1-19. Zhang, S., Gomies, M., Bejanyan, N., Fang, Z., Justo, J., Lin, L. H., ... & Tasoff, J. (2020). Trick for a treat: The effect of costume, identity, and peers on norm violations. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 179, 460-474.

Dr. Fernandez's research focuses on a wide range of risky behavior and mental health topics with a special focus on suicide and substance abuse, including opioid-related healthcare utilization. Dr. Fernandez has over 20 articles appearing in well-respected journals such as the the International Economic Review, The Journal of Economic Education, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Health Service Research Journal. He has appeared in over 100 local, regional, and national media interviews including NPR's Planet Money and the Indicator. Dr. Fernandez is a faculty scholar at the Commonwealth Institute of Kentucky, a member of the Statutory Committee Consensus Forecasting Group for the State of Kentucky, the former President of the American Society of Hispanic Economists, Member of the Committee on Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession, and the chair of the Economics Department at the University of Louisville.

Dr. Peter J. Boettke, Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University, discussed his book, "The Road to Socialism and Back: An Economic History of Poland, 1939–2019." About the Author Peter J. Boettke, Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute, is a Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University, the director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, and BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at the Mercatus Center. He received his Ph.D. from George Mason University. Prof. Boettke has developed a robust research program that expands an understanding of how individuals acting through the extended market order can promote freedom and prosperity for society, and how the institutional arrangements shape, reinforce, or inhibit the individual choices that lead to sustained economic development. His most recently published books include F. A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy and Social Philosophy; and The Four Pillars of Economic Understanding. Prof. Boettke is the editor of numerous academic journals, including the Review of Austrian Economics and the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, and of the book series, Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society. He has served as President of the Southern Economic Association, the Mont Pelerin Society, the Association of Private Enterprise Education, and the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics. About the Book The Road to Socialism and Back: An Economic History of Poland, 1939–2019 For four decades during the latter half of the 20th century, Poland and its people were the subjects of a grand socio-economic experiment. Under the watchful eye of its Soviet masters, the Polish United Workers' Party transformed the mixed economy of this nation of 35 million into a centrally planned, socialist state (albeit one with an irrepressible black market). Then, in the closing decade of the 20th century, under the leadership of Polish minister of finance Leszek Balcerowicz, the nation was transformed back into a mixed economy. In this book, we document the results of this experiment. We show that there was a wide chasm between the lofty goals of socialist ideology and the realities of socialism as the Polish people experienced them. We also show that while the transition back from a socialist to a mixed economy was not without its own pain, it did unleash the extraordinary productive power of the Polish people, allowing their standard of living to rise at more than twice the rate of growth that prevailed during the socialist era. The experiences of the Poles, like those of so many behind the Iron Curtain, demonstrate the value of economic freedom, the immiserating consequences of its denial, and the often painful process of regaining lost freedoms. Read more: https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/the-road-to-socialism-and-back-an-economic-history-of-poland-1939-2019 Download the book for free:https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/road-to-socialism-and-back-an-economic-history-of-poland-1939-2019.pdf This event is sponsored by the Center for Intermarium Studies and the Kosciuszko Chair of Polish Studies at IWP. ***Learn more about IWP graduate programs: https://www.iwp.edu/academic-programs/ ***Make a gift to IWP: https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/WebLink.aspx?name=E231090&id=18

Professor Gigi Foster talks about her paper "COVID's Cohort of Losers" which argues that COVID lockdowns and other restrictions disproportionately imposed costs on young people with few offsetting benefits. Gigi is a Professor of Economics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney and was named the 2019 Young Economist of the Year by the Economic Society of Australia.Please get in touch with any questions, comments and suggestions by emailing us at contact@economicsexplored.com or sending a voice message via https://www.speakpipe.com/economicsexplored. About this episode's guest: Gigi FosterGigi Foster is a Professor with the School of Economics at the University of New South Wales, having joined UNSW in 2009 after six years at the University of South Australia.  Formally educated at Yale University (BA in Ethics, Politics, and Economics) and the University of Maryland (PhD in Economics), she works in diverse fields including education, social influence, corruption, lab experiments, time use, behavioural economics, and Australian policy.  Gigi's research contributions regularly inform public debates and appear in both specialised and cross-disciplinary outlets (e.g., Quantitative Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Economic Psychology, Human Relations).  Her teaching, featuring strategic innovation and integration with research, was awarded a 2017 Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT) Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.  Named 2019 Young Economist of the Year by the Economic Society of Australia, Gigi has filled numerous roles of service to the profession and engages heavily on economic matters with the Australian community.  As one of Australia's leading economics communicators, her regular media appearances include co-hosting The Economists, a national economics talk-radio program and podcast series premiered in 2018, with Peter Martin AM on ABC Radio National.What's covered in EP205Intro to the cost and benefits of lockdowns. (3:22)Quality adjusted life year (QALY) and WELLBY. (8:07)Fear and the crowd. (13:47)The history of the cordon sanitaire. (16:58)How many lives were saved? (22:14)The cost and benefits of lock-downs. (27:25)The economics of the lockdown. (34:24)How do we determine the severity of pandemics? (36:25)The difference between the 1918 flu and COVID-19. (41:18)Citizen juries. (46:35)New laws about misinformation and disinformation. (49:45)Health and good nutrition. (56:01)Links relevant to the conversationGigi's paper for CIS:https://www.cis.org.au/publication/covids-cohort-of-losers-the-intergenerational-burden-of-the-governments-coronavirus-response/Information on WELLBYs:HM Treasury's Wellbeing Guidance for Appraisal: Supplementary Green Book GuidanceFull transcripts are available a few days after the episode is first published at www.economicsexplored.com. Economics Explored is available via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcast, and other podcasting platforms.

About our GuestsDr. Dave Rose is a Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1987 from the University of Virginia. His primary areas of research interest are behavioral economics, political economy, and organization theory. He has published scholarly articles in a wide range of areas. His work has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Weldon Spring Foundation, the HFL Foundation, the Earhart Foundation, and the John R. Templeton Foundation. He is currently in his second term on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. In 2008 he received the St. Louis Business Journal's Economic Educator of the year award. His book, The Moral Foundation of Economic Behavior, was selected one of CHOICE's outstanding titles of 2012. His newest book, Why Culture Matters Most, is also from Oxford University Press. He frequently contributes to policy debates through radio and television interviews as well as in Op-Eds on topics ranging from social security, monetary policy, fiscal policy, judicial philosophy, education reform, healthcare reform, and freedom of speech. Dr. Lawrence W. (“Larry”) Reed became President of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in 2008 after serving as chairman of its board of trustees in the 1990s and both writing and speaking for FEE since the late 1970s. He previously served for 21 years as President of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan (1987-2008). He also taught economics full-time from 1977 to 1984 at Northwood University in Michigan and chaired its department of economics from 1982 to 1984.In May 2019, he retired to the role of President Emeritus at FEE and assumed the titles of Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty. He holds a B.A. in economics from Grove City College (1975) and an M.A. degree in history from Slippery Rock State University (1978), both in Pennsylvania. He holds two honorary doctorates, one from Central Michigan University (public administration, 1993) and Northwood University (laws, 2008).Show NotesDr. Rose and Dr. Reed join Adrienne and Trae to discuss the foundation of a good education in civics and economics: cooperation and trust rooted in moral beliefs and lived out by ethical people in the family and society. We delve into the role of stories in economics class, preserving traditional practices and restoring home economics. For the civics and economics teachers, our guests help us see why preferring old stories to current events is best and why it's not necessarily the classroom teacher's job to show students how to balance their checking accounts.     Some topics in this episode include:The Relationship between Parenting, Culture, Civics, and Economics Framing Economics as Cooperation Self-governance in Classical Education The Family and Home Economics Moral Believes and Trust in the Family and Society The Role of Stories in Moral Education Humane Economics and Traditional Practices Gratitude and Service to Others Prudence and Democracy The Value of Failure How to Avoid “Bumper Sticker Pedagogy” Resources and Books & Mentioned In This EpisodeWhy Culture Matters, David Rose Real Heroes, Lawrence Reed Economics in One Lesson, Henry HazlittBasic Economics, Thomas Sowell Cinderella Man, Ron Howard (Director)The Whistle, Benjamin Franklin Aesop's Fables, Aesop “The Economics of Splitting Wood By Hand,” John Cuddeback A Conflict of Visions, Thomas SowellDr. Reed's Website Passion's Within Reason,  Robert H. Frank The Memory Book, Harry Lorayne and Jerry LucasFavorite Books and Quotes Dr. Rose's book that he wishes he had read sooner:A Conflict of Visions, Thomas Sowell  Dr. Reed's favorite quote (corrected): “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.” - David Hayek_________________________________OUR MISSIONWe exist for the benefit of both parents and teachers who are seeking to understand classical education. Teaching is an art and teachers need opportunities to cultivate their craft. Parents need to feel confident that their children are receiving the best education possible. Therefore, our goals are to help parents make well-informed decisions about the education of their children, and to help teachers experience true joy in their vocation. 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The mind works in mysterious ways, and sometimes it gets things wrong. In this mini-series, we explore how our biases and misinformation can hinder our happiness. In today's episode, we discuss social comparisons.   Transcript:   Welcome to Everyday Happiness where we create lasting happiness, in 2 minutes a day,  through my signature method of Intentional Margins® (creating harmony between your to-dos and your priorities), happiness science, and musings about life.    I'm your host Katie Jefcoat and I was listening to the Yale happiness course by Dr. Laurie Santos.    Yesterday we talked about reference points that were mostly internal.  I may make 30K a year and I want to make 50K, for example.     But today, we're talking about reference points when it comes to social comparison.  Look, it's everywhere, right?  Whether it's on TV or on your street, social comparison is out there, and we are constantly using it as a reference point to determine our own happiness.  Some more than others.    There is a study, where they looked at office workers and they found that if you knew you earned less than the other peers you worked with, you would be less happy.  For no other reason.  You could buy the car, the house, the life you wanted.  But you were less satisfied with your job if you knew others were making more money than you.     This is a problem when we ask, what counts as a reasonable social comparison?  Is it Beyonce or Real Housewives of Beverly Hills?  Or is it the colleague with the similar background and work?  When we are scrolling Instagram, watching TV, glued to Tik Tok, we are watching all of these highlight reels with people with so much more means that us.  What this is doing, is messing up our intuition as to what “normal” is.   We start to think, to use as a reference point, that this wealth is normal and we start to feel really crappy about our own circumstances and our brain tricks ourselves into thinking more of this stuff will make us happier.  But that's just not how this works.     The lesson is that we have to be intentional and check ourselves when it comes to who and why we use social comparison, because we are on auto-pilot doing it anyway, this is the opportunity to take a step back and be more mindful.    Until next time, we'd love for you to follow us over on Instagram @everydayhappinesswithkatie where we share quotes, episodes and have conversations with all of you.    The science mentioned in this episode can be reviewed at:  Solnick and Hemenway (1997). Is more always better?: A survey on positional concerns. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 37, 373-383.   Get Everyday Happiness delivered to your inbox by subscribing at: https://www.katiejefcoat.com/happiness   And, let's connect on social at @everydayhappinesswithkatie  and join the community on the hashtags #IntentionalMargins and #everydayhappinesswithkatie on Instagram   Links:  https://onamission.bio/everydayhappiness/

A study published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization in 2021, found that as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, prayer Google searches “rose on all continents, at all levels of income, inequality, and insecurity, and for all types of religion, except Buddhism.”The researchers concluded that the global rise in religiosity or spirituality happened because “people pray to cope with adversity.”“Our culture is increasingly abandoning anything that resembles orthodox Christianity in favor of a generic or sentimental kind of spirituality. This has caused many, including those within the church, to embrace a distorted vision of prayer. They seem to think that prayer is little more than a form of self-therapy but with a spiritual facade. In some places it's seen as a self-improvement practice that any health-obsessed person should do, like working out or eating quinoa.” – Skye JethaniChristian prayer should be concerned with relationship not results. To whom we pray is more important than how we pray.LUKE 11This prayer for Jesus followers has become both a pattern and a script for those in the Christian tradition. It is a guideline for prayer AND simultaneously, a prayer we regularly recite. It is the place in scripture we go to when we ourselves wonder, “Jesus, how do we pray?”This is why for the next several weeks leading up to lent, we will be unpacking each line of the Lord's prayer in a teaching series entitled “Teach Us to Pray.” Each week we will focus on a different aspect of prayer as reflected in the Lord's prayer.Week 1: CommunionWeek 2: ContendingWeek 3: PetitionWeek 4: ConfessionWeek 5: MissionGOD AS FATHERJesus begins the Lord's prayer reminding us that our communion with God as father is the foundation for all of prayer- it is the starting place- it's everything. The who of prayer is God our Father.The opening line of this prayer, “Our Father in heaven” would have been shocking even scandalous to the ears of Jesus' 1st-century audience for a few reasons:As aforementioned, God was never referred to in an intimate way but always in a formal and reverent one.Prayers in the 1st century for both Jews and non-Jews were generally formulaic in approach using words to compel a reluctant God to act.Our Father in heaven, these four words changed the way we relate to God and thus the entire nature of prayer. In defining the who, Jesus changes the why, when, where, what, and how of prayer.BREAD FOR A NEIGHBOR“And he said to them, “Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him'; and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything'? I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs. And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.” – Luke 11:5-8“Ancient Israel was an honor-based culture and highly communal. A person's reputation was of paramount importance, and their reputation was inexorably linked to their extended family and community. Failing to provide bread to an unexpected visitor, which is the core problem in Jesus' story, would not only bring shame upon an individual but also upon the entire village.” – Skye JethaniThe point is remarkable simply: God does not answer prayers because of our reputation but because of his.In one simple story, Jesus takes the focus of prayer off of our own righteousness or even our dedication to God. And he places the focus of prayer on God's desire to retain his reputation as a good loving father who gives his sons and daughters what they ask regardless of the quality of the asker.God answers prayers not because of our reputation but because of his reputation. And he is known as a good father.To whom we pray is more important than how we pray.GIVER OF GOOD GIFTS“What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”' –Luke 11:11-13As mentioned beforehand, the betrayal of God as a good and loving father was a scandalous idea for Jesus' first-century context. God was rarely referred to in an intimate way. He was almost always referred to formally and reverently.“Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden'?” –Genesis 3:1Interestingly enough, in Genesis 2, God is referred to over and over again as Yahweh Elohim or Lord God. But when the serpent comes onto the scene in Genesis 3:1, twisting God's words and creating half-truths, he refers to God by only using the word Elohim. Scholars call this keeping the abstract but dropping the personal. It would be like calling someone by their title and not their name.RESTORATION OF FATHERAccording to theologian N.T. Wright, there are nearly half a million words in the Hebrew Bible yet God is only portrayed as father 15 times.But then we turn to the New Testament. Gone are the days of reserve or distance. There is a new tone, a new familiarity, a new narrative. Jesus calls God father 65 times by the time you finish the gospel of Luke and over 170 times by the time you reach the end of John.It is only in proximity to the Father God of love that we “grasp how wide and long and high and deep” God's love is for usWe must stop thinking of prayer as simply communicating with God and start communing with God.SPIRITUAL PRACTICEWe do this through a practice commonly known as contemplative prayer.Contemplative prayer, as defined in the Handbook of Spiritual Disciplines, is a way of being with God without wordiness relying on God to initiate communion and communication.“Let your heart rate decrease. Know that you're already bathed in the Father's love, and ask simply for what you need, in the assurance that the One to whom you're speaking is already cupping His ear in your direction.”– Wesley Hill“And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.” – Matthew 6:7-8

Economists have been harshly criticized for their response to the recent financial crisis and the pandemic. Yet, they are willing to adapt to changing environments and take on new ideas but sometimes don't do it rapidly enough.Paul Andrew Ormerod is a British economist, best-selling author, a partner at Volterra Partners consultancy, and a founder and director of Algorithmic Economics. Additionally, he is a visiting professor at UCL's Department of Computer Science.Paul writes a weekly opinion column on economics and related topics for City AM, a newspaper aimed at workers in Central London.  Since May 2020 Paul Ormerod has been Chairman of the Rochdale Development Agency (RDA), responsible for economic development in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, which is in Greater Manchester.Greg and Paul discuss why misguided incentives can lead economists to turn a blind eye to shifting environments and fail to anticipate the chance of rare events which can be actually much bigger than predicted in economic risk models.Episode Quotes:Economics is not an empty box10:02: Mainstream economics is not an empty box. It does contain powerful insights. And so, the idea that agents or decision people respond to incentives is very powerful. And in particular, I think it's often caricatured that people think incentives must mean price, but in fact it could be a whole range of factors that people respond to. And if the incentive set changes, then behavior changes.06:44: Economics portrays a richer and more realistic portrait of how people behave –more grounded empirically, but at the macro level, it's really gone backwards.What's wrong with big data?42:36: Big data, one of the problems is the way it's often used. It might be very good at fitting particular circumstances, but it may not generalize very well. That's always a problem with any form of statistical analysis.As the pandemic unfolds, economists step out14:23: Economists do dominate public policy discourse. Whether it's at the national, state government, or international bodies, everything is filtered through the lens of economics. And on this one, they said, "Oh well, you know we pass; we'll step out."I think initially, because most of them didn't know anything about the models the epidemiologists were using, and now that they have done it, it's starting to appear.Show Links:Recommended Resources:Joseph SchumpeterFriedrich HayekArmen alchianHerbert simonLeonid kantorovicGuest Profile:Professional Profile at Volterra Partners LLPProfessional Profile at Rochdale Development AgencySpeaker's Profile on Chartwell SpeakersPaul Omerod's WebsitePaul Omerod on TwitterPaul Omerod on TEDxLSE 2013His Work:Article on EvonomicsArticles on City A.M.Against the Grain: Insights from an Economic ContrarianPositive Linking: How Networks Can Revolutionise the WorldWhy Most Things FailWhy Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and EconomicsButterfly Economics: A New General Theory of Social and Economic Behavior

Leadership comes with great responsibility. And if you want to be a transformational leader, you must embody your values, walking the walk, not just talking the talk. That's why it's important for you to understand your values. Research backs the idea that great leaders set a powerful example. As written the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, researchers wanted to determine how much a leader's opinions, beliefs, and behaviors could influence their followers. According to the study, “Leaders, whose behavior is visible to followers, are in a particularly powerful position to influence their followers' beliefs.” In this week's episode of Reflect Forward: Advice From a CEO, I share how I once modified my values because I felt shame that “Family” wasn't at the top. “How can I be a good mother if it's not my top value?” I questioned myself. But as I matured, I realized that the only way to live an authentic life is to understand your values and make sure that they are indeed yours. I encourage you to perform the values exercise I outline in the podcast and force yourself to narrow your top values down to three and then one. And then develop a plan for living those values as deeply and fully as possible. Question of the Week This week's question comes from a new employee in a management role who asked me, “KP, do you ever feel guilty delegating?” The short answer is no because I delegate the right types of activities. We all have a role to play and if I am performing jobs that my team can do, then I am not focused on the big picture, which is the role of the CEO. Delegating is also how I develop my team; I ask them to take on more significant roles or to run a project to learn new skills and stretch themselves. Delegating also shows your employees that you trust and believe in them. When you don't set proper expectations or follow up, delegation can go wrong. The person you are delegating to should understand the desired outcome and the expected deliverables. You need to check in regularly so they can ask clarifying questions or so you can course correct along away. Check out the full episode for details. Follow me on Instagram or LinkedIn. Subscribe to my podcast Reflect Forward on iTunes Or check out my new YouTube Channel, where you can watch full-length episodes of Advice From a CEO! And if you are looking for a keynote speaker or a podcast guest, click here to book a meeting with me to discuss what you are looking for!

The Cognitive Crucible is a forum that presents different perspectives and emerging thought leadership related to the information environment. The opinions expressed by guests are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of or endorsement by the Information Professionals Association. During this episode, Prof Matt Jackson of Stanford University discusses social learning, game theory, and an optimization methodology for minimizing the spread of disinformation.  Research Question:  There's a difference between entertainment and becoming informed.  How do we produce systems which are both entertaining & informing? Resources: Matt Jackson's Stanford Web Page Learning through the grapevine and the impact of the breadth and depth of social networks by Matthew O. Jackson, Suraj Malladi, and David McAdams The Human Network by Matthew Jackson Measuring Group Differences in High-Dimensional Choices: Method and Application to Congressional Speech by Matthew Gentzkow, Jesse M. Shapiro, and Matt Taddy The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich Link to full show notes and resources https://information-professionals.org/episode/cognitive-crucible-episode-116 Guest Bio:  Matthew O. Jackson is the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute. He was at Northwestern University and Caltech before joining Stanford, and received his BA from Princeton University in 1984 and PhD from Stanford in 1988. Jackson's research interests include game theory, microeconomic theory, and the study of social and economic networks, on which he has published many articles and the books `The Human Network' and `Social and Economic Networks'. He also teaches an online course on networks and co-teaches two others on game theory. Jackson is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Game Theory Society Fellow, and an Economic Theory Fellow, and his other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Social Choice and Welfare Prize, the von Neumann Award from Rajk Laszlo College, an honorary doctorate from Aix-Marseille University, the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize from the Toulouse School of Economics, the B.E.Press Arrow Prize for Senior Economists, the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance, and Management, and teaching awards. He has served on the editorial boards of Econometrica, Games and Economic Behavior, PNAS, the Review of Economic Design, and as the President of the Game Theory Society. About: The Information Professionals Association (IPA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to exploring the role of information activities, such as influence and cognitive security, within the national security sector and helping to bridge the divide between operations and research. Its goal is to increase interdisciplinary collaboration between scholars and practitioners and policymakers with an interest in this domain. For more information, please contact us at communications@information-professionals.org. Or, connect directly with The Cognitive Crucible podcast host, John Bicknell, on LinkedIn. Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, 1) IPA earns from qualifying purchases, 2) IPA gets commissions for purchases made through links in this post.

The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality (Routledge, 2021) is about methods for using observational data to make causal inferences. It provides an extensive discussion of causality and the variety of both obvious and subtle challenges to inferring a causal relationship between the variables, using causal diagrams. It then goes through the major techniques that economists use to address these challenges, including regression, matching, simulation, fixed effects, event studies, differences-in-differences, instrumental variables, and regression discontinuity. The book is designed to be accessible to students or practitioners without the extensive math background that is taken for granted in typical econometrics textbooks. Instead, the emphasis is on the intuition behind the techniques and how to implement them with the widely-used programming languages R, Stata, and Python. Nick C. Huntington-Klein is an Assistant Professor at Seattle University. His research focuses on econometrics and higher education. His work has been published in the Economics of Education Review, AEA Papers and Proceedings, Economic Inquiry, Empirical Economics, and the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. His book can be read online for free or purchased in print, and is accompanied by a wealth of teaching materials on the same website. Nick can also be found on Youtube and on Twitter. Host Peter Lorentzen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of San Francisco, where he leads a new Master's program in Applied Economics focused on the digital economy. His own research focus is the political economy of governance in China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality (Routledge, 2021) is about methods for using observational data to make causal inferences. It provides an extensive discussion of causality and the variety of both obvious and subtle challenges to inferring a causal relationship between the variables, using causal diagrams. It then goes through the major techniques that economists use to address these challenges, including regression, matching, simulation, fixed effects, event studies, differences-in-differences, instrumental variables, and regression discontinuity. The book is designed to be accessible to students or practitioners without the extensive math background that is taken for granted in typical econometrics textbooks. Instead, the emphasis is on the intuition behind the techniques and how to implement them with the widely-used programming languages R, Stata, and Python. Nick C. Huntington-Klein is an Assistant Professor at Seattle University. His research focuses on econometrics and higher education. His work has been published in the Economics of Education Review, AEA Papers and Proceedings, Economic Inquiry, Empirical Economics, and the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. His book can be read online for free or purchased in print, and is accompanied by a wealth of teaching materials on the same website. Nick can also be found on Youtube and on Twitter. Host Peter Lorentzen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of San Francisco, where he leads a new Master's program in Applied Economics focused on the digital economy. His own research focus is the political economy of governance in China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality (Routledge, 2021) is about methods for using observational data to make causal inferences. It provides an extensive discussion of causality and the variety of both obvious and subtle challenges to inferring a causal relationship between the variables, using causal diagrams. It then goes through the major techniques that economists use to address these challenges, including regression, matching, simulation, fixed effects, event studies, differences-in-differences, instrumental variables, and regression discontinuity. The book is designed to be accessible to students or practitioners without the extensive math background that is taken for granted in typical econometrics textbooks. Instead, the emphasis is on the intuition behind the techniques and how to implement them with the widely-used programming languages R, Stata, and Python. Nick C. Huntington-Klein is an Assistant Professor at Seattle University. His research focuses on econometrics and higher education. His work has been published in the Economics of Education Review, AEA Papers and Proceedings, Economic Inquiry, Empirical Economics, and the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. His book can be read online for free or purchased in print, and is accompanied by a wealth of teaching materials on the same website. Nick can also be found on Youtube and on Twitter. Host Peter Lorentzen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of San Francisco, where he leads a new Master's program in Applied Economics focused on the digital economy. His own research focus is the political economy of governance in China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/public-policy

The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality (Routledge, 2021) is about methods for using observational data to make causal inferences. It provides an extensive discussion of causality and the variety of both obvious and subtle challenges to inferring a causal relationship between the variables, using causal diagrams. It then goes through the major techniques that economists use to address these challenges, including regression, matching, simulation, fixed effects, event studies, differences-in-differences, instrumental variables, and regression discontinuity. The book is designed to be accessible to students or practitioners without the extensive math background that is taken for granted in typical econometrics textbooks. Instead, the emphasis is on the intuition behind the techniques and how to implement them with the widely-used programming languages R, Stata, and Python. Nick C. Huntington-Klein is an Assistant Professor at Seattle University. His research focuses on econometrics and higher education. His work has been published in the Economics of Education Review, AEA Papers and Proceedings, Economic Inquiry, Empirical Economics, and the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. His book can be read online for free or purchased in print, and is accompanied by a wealth of teaching materials on the same website. Nick can also be found on Youtube and on Twitter. Host Peter Lorentzen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of San Francisco, where he leads a new Master's program in Applied Economics focused on the digital economy. His own research focus is the political economy of governance in China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/education

The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality (Routledge, 2021) is about methods for using observational data to make causal inferences. It provides an extensive discussion of causality and the variety of both obvious and subtle challenges to inferring a causal relationship between the variables, using causal diagrams. It then goes through the major techniques that economists use to address these challenges, including regression, matching, simulation, fixed effects, event studies, differences-in-differences, instrumental variables, and regression discontinuity. The book is designed to be accessible to students or practitioners without the extensive math background that is taken for granted in typical econometrics textbooks. Instead, the emphasis is on the intuition behind the techniques and how to implement them with the widely-used programming languages R, Stata, and Python. Nick C. Huntington-Klein is an Assistant Professor at Seattle University. His research focuses on econometrics and higher education. His work has been published in the Economics of Education Review, AEA Papers and Proceedings, Economic Inquiry, Empirical Economics, and the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. His book can be read online for free or purchased in print, and is accompanied by a wealth of teaching materials on the same website. Nick can also be found on Youtube and on Twitter. Host Peter Lorentzen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of San Francisco, where he leads a new Master's program in Applied Economics focused on the digital economy. His own research focus is the political economy of governance in China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/economics

The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality (Routledge, 2021) is about methods for using observational data to make causal inferences. It provides an extensive discussion of causality and the variety of both obvious and subtle challenges to inferring a causal relationship between the variables, using causal diagrams. It then goes through the major techniques that economists use to address these challenges, including regression, matching, simulation, fixed effects, event studies, differences-in-differences, instrumental variables, and regression discontinuity. The book is designed to be accessible to students or practitioners without the extensive math background that is taken for granted in typical econometrics textbooks. Instead, the emphasis is on the intuition behind the techniques and how to implement them with the widely-used programming languages R, Stata, and Python. Nick C. Huntington-Klein is an Assistant Professor at Seattle University. His research focuses on econometrics and higher education. His work has been published in the Economics of Education Review, AEA Papers and Proceedings, Economic Inquiry, Empirical Economics, and the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. His book can be read online for free or purchased in print, and is accompanied by a wealth of teaching materials on the same website. Nick can also be found on Youtube and on Twitter. Host Peter Lorentzen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of San Francisco, where he leads a new Master's program in Applied Economics focused on the digital economy. His own research focus is the political economy of governance in China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality (Routledge, 2021) is about methods for using observational data to make causal inferences. It provides an extensive discussion of causality and the variety of both obvious and subtle challenges to inferring a causal relationship between the variables, using causal diagrams. It then goes through the major techniques that economists use to address these challenges, including regression, matching, simulation, fixed effects, event studies, differences-in-differences, instrumental variables, and regression discontinuity. The book is designed to be accessible to students or practitioners without the extensive math background that is taken for granted in typical econometrics textbooks. Instead, the emphasis is on the intuition behind the techniques and how to implement them with the widely-used programming languages R, Stata, and Python. Nick C. Huntington-Klein is an Assistant Professor at Seattle University. His research focuses on econometrics and higher education. His work has been published in the Economics of Education Review, AEA Papers and Proceedings, Economic Inquiry, Empirical Economics, and the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. His book can be read online for free or purchased in print, and is accompanied by a wealth of teaching materials on the same website. Nick can also be found on Youtube and on Twitter. Host Peter Lorentzen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of San Francisco, where he leads a new Master's program in Applied Economics focused on the digital economy. His own research focus is the political economy of governance in China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality (Routledge, 2021) is about methods for using observational data to make causal inferences. It provides an extensive discussion of causality and the variety of both obvious and subtle challenges to inferring a causal relationship between the variables, using causal diagrams. It then goes through the major techniques that economists use to address these challenges, including regression, matching, simulation, fixed effects, event studies, differences-in-differences, instrumental variables, and regression discontinuity. The book is designed to be accessible to students or practitioners without the extensive math background that is taken for granted in typical econometrics textbooks. Instead, the emphasis is on the intuition behind the techniques and how to implement them with the widely-used programming languages R, Stata, and Python. Nick C. Huntington-Klein is an Assistant Professor at Seattle University. His research focuses on econometrics and higher education. His work has been published in the Economics of Education Review, AEA Papers and Proceedings, Economic Inquiry, Empirical Economics, and the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. His book can be read online for free or purchased in print, and is accompanied by a wealth of teaching materials on the same website. Nick can also be found on Youtube and on Twitter. Host Peter Lorentzen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of San Francisco, where he leads a new Master's program in Applied Economics focused on the digital economy. His own research focus is the political economy of governance in China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We hear all the time that money can't buy happiness. We also hear that mo' money = mo' problems. But having the money to buy that new house or car or save for retirement will make me happier. Right? Today we discuss the relationship between money and happiness and how --after our basic needs are met-- the way we think about money can have a more significant effect on our happiness than the money we actually have. If you have questions, feedback, or topic suggestions you can email us at nogginpodcast@gmail.com References: Dunn, E. W., Aknin, L. B., & Norton, M. I. (2008). Spending money on others promotes happiness. Science, 319(5870), 1687-1688. Kahneman, D., Krueger, A. B., Schkade, D., Schwarz, N., & Stone, A. A. (2006). Would you be happier if you were richer? A focusing illusion. science, 312(5782), 1908-1910. Easterlin, R. A. (1995). Will raising the incomes of all increase the happiness of all?. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 27(1), 35-47. Miñarro, S., Reyes-García, V., Aswani, S., Selim, S., Barrington-Leigh, C. P., & Galbraith, E. D. (2021). Happy without money: Minimally monetized societies can exhibit high subjective well-being. PloS one, 16(1), e0244569. Oishi, S., Kesebir, S., & Diener, E. (2011). Income inequality and happiness. Psychological science, 22(9), 1095-1100. Johnson, W., & Krueger, R. F. (2006). How money buys happiness: genetic and environmental processes linking finances and life satisfaction. Journal of personality and social psychology, 90(4), 680. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noggin-psychologypodcast/support

Dr. Semmler earned his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin in Germany. He is the author of several books including "Sustainable Accumulation and Dynamic Portfolio Decisions" and has appeared in numerous economic journals such as the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations, and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. Dr. Chappe received her masters in Comparative Business Law and received her Ph.D. in Economics. Mr. Bastos Neves is a current Ph.D. at the New School of Social Research where he focuses on climate change, development finance, and macroeconomics. Together, the three talked about the impacts of carbon taxes, how taxes have impacted inequality, and how private investment patterns have changed throughout the years. To check out more of our content, including our research, visit our website: https://www.hgsss.org/

About our GuestsDr. Dave Rose is a Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1987 from the University of Virginia. His primary areas of research interest are behavioral economics, political economy, and organization theory. He has published scholarly articles in a wide range of areas. His work has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Weldon Spring Foundation, the HFL Foundation, the Earhart Foundation, and the John R. Templeton Foundation. He is currently in his second term on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. In 2008 he received the St. Louis Business Journal's Economic Educator of the year award. His book, The Moral Foundation of Economic Behavior, was selected one of CHOICE's outstanding titles of 2012. His newest book, Why Culture Matters Most, is also from Oxford University Press. He frequently contributes to policy debates through radio and television interviews as well as in Op-Eds on topics ranging from social security, monetary policy, fiscal policy, judicial philosophy, education reform, healthcare reform, and freedom of speech. Dr. Lawrence W. (“Larry”) Reed became President of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in 2008 after serving as chairman of its board of trustees in the 1990s and both writing and speaking for FEE since the late 1970s. He previously served for 21 years as President of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan (1987-2008). He also taught economics full-time from 1977 to 1984 at Northwood University in Michigan and chaired its department of economics from 1982 to 1984.In May 2019, he retired to the role of President Emeritus at FEE and assumed the titles of Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty. He holds a B.A. in economics from Grove City College (1975) and an M.A. degree in history from Slippery Rock State University (1978), both in Pennsylvania. He holds two honorary doctorates, one from Central Michigan University (public administration, 1993) and Northwood University (laws, 2008).Show NotesDr. Rose and Dr. Reed join Adrienne and Trae to discuss the foundation of a good education in civics and economics: cooperation and trust rooted in moral beliefs and lived out by ethical people in the family and society. We delve into the role of stories in economics class, preserving traditional practices and restoring home economics. For the civics and economics teachers, our guests help us see why preferring old stories to current events is best and why it's not necessarily the classroom teacher's job to show students how to balance their checking accounts.     Some topics in this episode include:The Relationship between Parenting, Culture, Civics, and Economics Framing Economics as Cooperation Self-governance in Classical Education The Family and Home Economics Moral Believes and Trust in the Family and Society The Role of Stories in Moral Education Humane Economics and Traditional Practices Gratitude and Service to Others Prudence and Democracy The Value of Failure How to Avoid “Bumper Sticker Pedagogy” Resources and Books & Mentioned In This EpisodeWhy Culture Matters, David Rose Real Heroes, Lawrence Reed Economics in One Lesson, Henry HazlittBasic Economics, Thomas Sowell Cinderella Man, Ron Howard (Director)The Whistle, Benjamin Franklin Aesop's Fables, Aesop “The Economics of Splitting Wood By Hand,” John Cuddeback A Conflict of Visions, Thomas SowellDr. Reed's Website Passion's Within Reason,  Robert H. Frank The Memory Book, Harry Lorayne and Jerry LucasFavorite Books and Quotes Dr. Rose's book that he wishes he had read sooner:A Conflict of Visions, Thomas Sowell  Dr. Reed's favorite quote (corrected): “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.” - David Hayek_________________________________Credits:Sound Engineer: Andrew HelselLogo Art: Anastasiya CFMusic: Used with permission. cellists: Sara Sant' Ambrogio and Lexine Feng; pianist: Alyona Waldo  © 2022 Beautiful Teaching. All Rights Reserved ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Ben Gomes-Casseres has worked on partnership strategies for thirty years, as a researcher, teacher, and advisor. He is the Peter A. Petri Professor of Business and Society at Brandeis University, where he directs the Asper Center for Global Entrepreneurship and teaches courses on alliances and acquisitions, strategy, and innovation. At Brandeis, he has helped build the business programs and faculty of the International Business School and has twice received the Excellence in Teaching Award. Ben began his academic career as a student and then professor at Harvard Business School, working on international strategy, and in particular on the use of joint ventures in international business. Before that, he worked as an economist at the World Bank. Ben received the Journal of International Business Studies Decade Award in 2000. His work has also appeared in Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Strategic Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, The New York Times, and in other journals and periodicals. His book Remix Strategy: The Three Laws of Business Combinations (Harvard Business Press, 2015) won the Silver Medal from Axiom and was a finalist at Thinkers50. He has two popular online courses on LinkedIn Learning, on “Strategic Partnerships” and on “Ecosystems and Platforms.” Ben is a speaker and advisor to global companies seeking to create value through partnerships and ecosystems. He holds a DBA from Harvard, an MPA from Princeton, and a BA Brandeis. A native of Curaçao, he speaks four languages. Visit https://www.aib.world/frontline-ib/benjamin-gomes-casseres/ for the original video interview.  

Vamos falar de Jogos mas não dos electrónicos. Vamos falar de xadrez e de póquer, mas não vamos ensinar como jogar mas sim do que está subjacente.Vamos falar do Dilema do Prisioneiro que, quer acredite ou não, explica muita vida fora das prisões.Joana Pais estreia-se no IN PERTINENTE ao lado de Hugo Van Der Ding e ambos vão levar-nos a esta Teoria que está presente nas nossas vidas em muito mais momentos do que aqueles dos quais temos consciência. Interpelada por Hugo, a Joana explica e contextualiza a Teoria dos Jogos, e depois põe-na em prática, ao vivo, desafiando o Hugo para um jogo. Ouça e, se lhe apetecer, jogue com eles ‘em directo'.REFERÊNCIAS E LINKS ÚTEIS:John von Neumann: -Artigo de 1928: Theory of Parlor Games, publicado em alemão: v. Neumann, J. (1928) Zur Theorie der Gesellschaftsspiele. Math. Ann. 100, 295–320 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01448847- Livro de 1944 com Oskar Morgenstern:v. Neumann, J, Morgenstern, O. (1944). Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. Princeton University Press. Émile BorelAntoine-Augustin Cournot:- Livro de 1838:Cournot, A.A. (1838) Recherches sur les principes mathématiques de la théorie des richesses (Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth). RAND Corporation:https://www.rand.org/John Nash:- Artigo de 1951:Nash, J. (1951). Non-Cooperative Games. Annals of Mathematics, 54(2), 286–295. https://doi.org/10.2307/1969529- Prémio em Ciências Económicas em memória de Nobel em 1994, com Reinhard Selten e John C. Harsanyi.-Filme: A Beautiful Mind (Uma Mente Brilhante) de 2001Dilema do Prisioneiro:Formulado por Merrill Flood e Melvin Dreshner da RAND Corp., com Albert Tucker em 1950.Colin F. Camererhttps://www.hss.caltech.edu/people/colin-f-camererArtigo sobre a teoria da hierarquia cognitiva (cognitive hierarchy theory):Camerer, C. F.,  Ho, T.-H. e Chong, J.-K. (2004). A cognitive hierarchy model of games. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 119 (3), 861-898. ISSN 0033-5533. doi:10.1162/0033553041502225.BIOSJOANA PAISJoana Pais é professora de Economia no ISEG da Universidade de Lisboa. Obteve o seu Ph.D. em Economia na Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona em 2005. Atualmente é coordenadora do programa de Mestrado em Economia e do programa de Doutoramento em Economia, ambos do ISEG, e membro da direção da unidade de investigação REM - Research in Economics and Mathematics. É ainda coordenadora do XLAB – Behavioural Research Lab, um laboratório que explora a tomada de decisão e o comportamento económico, político e social, suportado pelo consórcio PASSDA (Production and Archive of Social Science Data). Os seus interesses de investigação incluem áreas como a teoria de jogos, em particular, a teoria da afetação (matching theory), o desenho de mercados, a economia comportamental e a economia experimental.HUGO VAN DER DING Hugo van der Ding nasceu nos finais dos anos 70 ao largo do Golfo da Biscaia, durante uma viagem entre Amesterdão e Lisboa, e cresceu numa comunidade hippie nos arredores de Montpellier. Estudou História das Artes Decorativas Orientais, especializando-se em gansos de origami. Em 2012, desistiu da carreira académica para fazer desenhos nas redes sociais. Depois do sucesso de A Criada Malcriada deixou de precisar de trabalhar. Ainda assim, escreve regularmente em revistas e jornais, é autor de alguns livros e podcasts, faz ocasionalmente teatro e televisão, e continua a fazer desenhos nas redes sociais. Desde 2019 é um dos apresentadores do programa Manhãs da 3, na Antena 3.

SHOW SUMMARY: In this episode, I'm talking about what it means to live a vibrant life and why it is so important to create your life intentionally. It has a little something to do with your purpose, science, magic, and your divine nature! SHOW MAP: 3:03: It's clear that we get unhappier in midlife. Why is this the case and why isn't it a midlife crisis? 5:30: What it means to live a vibrant life. 7:40: The elements of Vibrant Living, including defining JOY and how it is different than happiness. 11:15: How are meaning and wellbeing part of a vibrant life? 13:58: What is the value of a vibrant life? Why should you make it a priority? 15:25: Purpose is powerful and it's not something you “find” 16:45: The biggest reason to create your vibrant life and how it connects science and ancient wisdom. 19:47: The egoic human part of us isn't less important than the spiritual part of us. 23:18: Thriving is a choice. You can craft your own best life using a little science and magic! WHAT TO DO NEXT: Complete the free Vibrancy Reflection Activity to help you explore what you want in each area of your life and what holds you back. Join the Flittersphere™ online group and the ongoing discussion about vibrant living! Write down the SYVL15 coupon code and watch the group for the launch of the new program that will help you create a midlife shift into the next you! RESOURCES: Root meaning of words: I'm endlessly fascinated by words and the meaning we give them. If you are too, check out this website that helps you find the historic meaning of words. https://www.etymonline.com The study: Here is the research that found unhappiness peaks in midlife.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268120301414 Another fun study – the world happiness report. https://worldhappiness.report/ed/202 SPEAKERS: Suzette Conway founded the Flittersphere™ to support women 40 and older in creating a mid-life shift so they can release the angsty, restless feeling of living disconnected from what they are meant for and finally have the deeply satisfying life their soul craves. She started her company in 2017, bringing the wisdom of a 25-year career in corporate learning & development, a degree in communications, a love of exploring the human experience, and a craving for Sparkable Moments™! She's on a mission to raise the world's energy and consciousness by helping 100,000 women live more vibrantly! Flittersphere WebsiteFlittersphere Community TRANSCRIPT: Hey there. Welcome to the Sparkable Moments podcast, where we have conversations to feed the soul! In this show, we explore the human experience using a mix of science, personal stories, random ponderings, and deep-end-of-the-pool discussions. I'm your hostess Suzette Conway. I'm a happiness coach and the creator of the Flittersphere, which is a community of women intent on crafting our most vibrant lives. This show is part of my mission to raise the world's vibration and consciousness by creating better human experiences to change the world in beautiful and spectacular ways! I'm so glad you're joining me on the journey! In today's show, we are talking about what it means to thrive as human beings. At the end of the show, I have a fantastic gift for you and a heads up on a new program that's launching soon! And, I also have an activity you can do in under 20 minutes to help you live more vibrantly. Be sure to stick around to hear all the details and grab the gift! Ok, this is the first episode of my new podcast! Whoo Hoo! You can't see it right now, but I'm doing a little happy dance as I record this show. I am beyond excited to put this into the world. It has been just under a year since I admitted to myself that I wanted to create the Sparkable Moments™ podcast and seeing it come to life brings me immense joy and satisfaction… and honestly, a little fear and some nagging concerns about my ability to commit to things... but mostly joy and satisfaction! And I think that's so fitting since joy and satisfaction are central themes of today's episode. So, let's get started… because I want to talk about something important. I want to talk to you about living a rich, full life in which we flourish as human beings. I call this living a vibrant life and it has a little something to do with being happy, so let's start there. Very few of us are happy all the time. It's normal for emotions to fluctuate, and happiness comes and goes throughout our lives. And not just day to day, but in stages of our life. For instance, data shows that young kids are pretty happy, but unhappiness grows as we age. Midlife, especially, is a time when happiness tends to take a dive. A study published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization analyzed over 14 million participants and found that for people in Europe and the United States, unhappiness increases and hits a high in our late 40s. They looked at indicators for unhappiness like anxiety, worry, loneliness, sadness, stress, depression, and pain. They even looked at confidence levels, feeling like a failure, feeling left out, and being under strain. They factored in age, marital status, political views, education, the economy, and so forth. And what the research tells us is that it's clear that we get unhappier in midlife. Why is this the case and why isn't it a midlife crisis? The researchers in that huge study suggest there are three possible reasons. First, we learn to adapt to our strengths and our weaknesses over time and start to see our realities change… so in mid-life we start to think we won't realize our dreams and aspirations from when we were younger. Second, it may be that cheerful people live longer than miserable people and there is sort of this “survival of the fittest” effect in which we see higher levels of happiness as we age past midlife because there are simply more happy people left at those older ages. And third is that as we age past midlife, we recognize that people around us are getting sick and dying and we start to be grateful for our blessings and good health and, therefore we become happier. Simply put, we CHOOSE happiness more as we age than we do in midlife. Other research shows us that we are happiest at ages 33, 55, and in our 70s, on average. Thirty-three because we have the energy and knowledge to pursue our dreams. 55 because we've built up enough assets and authority to be comfortable. And seventies because we're free at that age of many stressful responsibilities that we have at younger ages, and we have the time and room to reflect on our accomplishments. And these findings support that we are unhappier in midlife, and it adds to possible reasons why. In midlife, many of us lack the energy, assets, and freedom that we have at other points in life. It makes sense. Our energy and assets are going to our families and our careers, and everyday life is full of stressors we don't often have when we are younger or older.... like kids to raise, mortgages to pay, etc. There is tons of research on this issue and it is clear that we get unhappier in midlife. Some people may see this data about midlife unhappiness and think it is evidence of a so-called midlife crisis. Personally, I'm not a fan of that concept. I prefer to see it as a call to create a midlife shift that helps us to be happier and healthier and to thrive again, on purpose. It's an opportunity to look honestly at our current reality and ask ourselves what we want, and then choose to create a life in line with that. We don't lose the ability to be conscious creators just because we age into midlife. We simply need to reconnect to those creative skills. This is a primary focus of creating a vibrant life. Now, the details of what makes a life vibrant will be different for each of us. But I think I can define vibrant living in a way that most of us can relate to and that still gives us the room to paint our own personal picture of it. So, what is a vibrant life? I define it as a life that is full of joy, meaning, and wellbeing, in which we are aligned to our gifts and strengths and to our true nature and purpose, a life in which we live intentionally and function optimally, in service of our highest good, honoring what our genius spirit wants for us. I love that definition. It speaks to my soul. What a life to aspire to! I developed that definition of a vibrant life for myself after years of practicing intuitive, spiritual, and creative principles in the pursuit of my own best life. It's got all the good stuff in there – the stuff that lights us up and lifts us into our best selves… I mean, look at it! We're using our gifts, tapping into our strengths, knowing and honoring our essence and purpose, embracing intentionality and choice and all the personal power and responsibility that entails, and functioning really well, more than just getting by, it means thriving. And it's all in SERVICE of our inner spirit.. of something bigger than our human selves. I find the notion of knowing about that something bigger, and honoring and connecting to it.. to be awe-evoking. When I let myself really settle into what it means for me, it gives me goosebumps.. and hope… and a deep sense of purpose and possibility. I think this definition of a vibrant life is a framework that is universally applicable but can also be personally customized. What are YOUR gifts? What is YOUR essence? What is YOUR genius spirit calling you to do and be in this life? What does it mean to YOU to live optimally? What is YOUR highest good? What does it mean to YOU to connect to your something bigger? Reflecting on all that is a soul-satisfying experience. And so is living in alignment with it! This is spirit-centered work, and it isn't for everyone. Let's break it down a bit and see how it resonates with you. We'll start with Joy. I think of this as more than simple happiness. Happiness is a typically fleeting, emotional state – a positive, pleasant, or pleasurable feeling. That seems simple enough. But to me, pleasant or pleasurable represent very different experiences. When I think of pleasant, I imagine an agreeable person or a fall afternoon with clear blue skies and a lazy day of reading in the sun. When I think of pleasure, I think of sex and chocolate and crispy, salty, pieces of pork belly melting in my mouth! Pleasant is an evening walk. Pleasure is a full-body, deep tissue massage with scented oils, and music, outside, for 2 hours. The word pleasant is actually rooted in the 14th century meaning for being liked, or acceptable, or approved of. It evolved to also mean to delight, to attract someone, to amuse, or entertain. And these are all perfectly lovely things. But then there is pleasure. In the 14th century, this came to mean desire, the source of enjoyment, or that which pleases or gratifies the senses or the mind. I love that! Now, by the 15th century pleasure evolved to mean "sensual gratification” and "indulgence of the appetites as the chief objective of life". Think about that… the pursuit of pleasure was seen as a primary objective of life. A pleasant life wasn't enough. Seeking pleasure, something richer and more gratifying, was the goal. And I think there is something even higher than pleasure. It's JOY. These days, as we are actively exploring all the things about the science of happiness, which I love, we are often told to skip the pursuit of happiness in favor of meaningfulness. But I think a full and satisfying life includes both. And to me, that is where joy fits in. I think you can plot it on a continuum as related but different experiences. We can move from simple happiness to pleasant experiences to pleasurable experiences and then on to JOY. JOY is happiness plus meaning. It is heart-centered happiness that lights up your soul. The lower kinds of happiness are hedonic. They are rooted in pleasure. And there is nothing wrong with pursuing them. But they are quickly passing emotions and experiences. Joy is a transcendent experience that lingers beyond the moments of whatever triggered the happiness. It is a higher kind of happiness, called a eudemonic state. Because joy includes the positive emotions of happiness, which are proven to be good for us, and the deeper experiences of meaning, also proven to be good for us, JOY itself contributes to our overall wellbeing and helps us flourish in our human experience. Here is an example of joy. Happiness might be having a good glass of wine with some friends while you listen to a cover band sing your favorite 80s music. But Joy is the free, full-throated laughter with your best friends as you sing along to those songs and reminisce about your teen years while reveling in your midlife tradition of getting together every week at your favorite pub to bond and celebrate the doing of life together. The wine and the music are fine. But the meaningfulness of the rest of it is what creates the deeper joy that serves us so well as human beings. Joy is powerful. And now I hope you see why I also included MEANING in the definition of vibrant living. Living with Meaning is about living in a way that is personally significant, and that includes having a direction or purpose that motivates us. This provides a sense of balance and context that helps us move beyond the commotion and craziness of life by anchoring us to something bigger than ourselves. Meaningfulness can be tied to things like connecting with good friends, raising a family, helping a sick loved one, or maybe the satisfaction of solving a problem, teaching someone a skill, or growing a community garden. It often includes other people, but it doesn't have to. It just needs to be significant to you and have some higher purpose. That's the difference between the visceral, pleasurable feelings of hedonic happiness, and something higher and more meaningful Wellbeing is the third big anchor in vibrant living. Wellbeing is about being comfortable, happy, and healthy in life. We already know that joy and meaningfulness contribute to wellbeing, but it's more than that. Wellbeing can relate to any area of your life. So, ask yourself - are you comfortable, healthy, and happy as it relates to your physical health, or spiritually, or emotionally? What about your finances, or your relationships or your work? How are you doing with your sense of self-expression and creativity? Wellbeing is really about quality of life. And I contend that the higher your sense of wellbeing, the easier it is to express your spirit in the world, which makes you happy and helps you thrive, and creates wellbeing. It's like a loop. Now, that doesn't mean you have to be doing well in every area of your life to thrive. But the more wellness that you can create in more areas of your life, the better you'll feel about your life and the better you'll feel in life. Like the rest of the definition of vibrant living, wellbeing can be personalized. Think about what it means to YOU to be physically healthy and how that may be different than what it means to someone else to be physically healthy. We have different life experiences, capabilities, resources, and goals. For me, health includes things like lowering my systemic inflammation and keeping my blood sugar in check, and being able to move freely and without pain. For someone else being healthy may mean being able to run a marathon. For others, it could be developing the flexibility and stamina needed to play with their grandkids. Maybe it means being fit enough to walk around old-world cities for days, allowing for more joyful travel experiences. The same can be said for what it means to you or anybody else to be well in any area of your life. With all that being said… you might still be asking what is the value of a vibrant life? Why should you care about intentionally creating an authentic, awe-inspiring, soul-satisfying human experience? Well, I contend that you should not only care about it, you should make it a priority. Why? Simply put, creating a vibrant life helps you live a longer. It helps you to be happier and have a more satisfying existence. Why would you want to settle for anything less than the highest quality life you can create? To me the “why do it?” is really about “why not do it?” And it isn't as hard as we think it is. There are so many little things that we can purposely do to live a better life. Consider optimism. Research shows that optimistic people are better leaders, more resilient, and they tend to have fewer health problems. They live longer and have better moods, higher self-esteem, and better relationships than pessimistic people. Developing this mindset is possible. It's not like you are either optimistic or not. You can train yourself to become more optimistic. Not enough for you? Research also shows that deep, chronic loneliness is a bigger predictor of early death than smoking. We humans are biologically wired for connection. Nurturing good relationships is essential to thriving. So, what can you do to create better relationships in your life? It doesn't' have to be earth-shattering stuff. Small changes over time move us forward. Want more? People with a sense of purpose get sick less often. They better manage and mitigate stress and they have a strong sense of psychological balance, a mental fortitude. And, they also live longer. Purpose is powerful. There is a lot out there these days on the urgency of finding your purpose and how to do it. This is why… it improves the quality of your life. Personally, I believe that your purpose is not so much something you find, as it is something you remember and reconnect to. You can do this by experimenting and trying new things, engaging more in the world, and opening your mind to possibilities. We'll talk more about purpose in a bit, so stick around for that. But for right now, I just want to say, clearly, it's important to know what contributes to human thriving, like optimism, connection, purpose… and for that matter creativity, play, and good sleep. It's also important to know how to create these things in your life in a way that works for you. And when you do, it can have powerful impacts on the quality of your life. So, whether you're here for 20 years or 120 years, don't you want to make the most of it? I know I sure want to. And if you are like me, you deeply desire to have the best human experience you can in your time on this earth. To me, the most basic reason to create your vibrant life is because you can and because it feels good. If you need a deeper answer, I have one for you. It starts with my favorite quote, from French Philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Pierre says “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” Our true nature is spiritual, divine. I agree with Chardin so much that I actually believe it is our primary purpose is to live our best human experience and that doing that is rooted in an ongoing effort to reconnect to and fully express our true, spiritual nature, our own divinity. All other purposes we may remember or find or create for ourselves are part of that primary purpose. Yes, you heard that right. I believe creating our most vibrant lives, is our primary purpose. And dare I say… our responsibility… to ourselves, to God, to the universe, and to all that came before us and all that comes after us. It is the highest form of living intentionally, living consciously, and living bravely. I think the folks in the 15th century had it right --- the pursuit of more than a pleasant life is good for us. We deserve to create a vibrant life, to truly thrive. We are designed for exactly that. I know all that can feel like a big task, a difficult perspective to live up to. It's worth pointing out that none of this needs to be done perfectly. You don't need to experience some perfect level of wellbeing and meaning and joy in every area of your life in order to be living vibrantly. Perfect doesn't even really exist. The point of the definition of vibrant living, the point of the quest for living our best lives and seeking the something more we are meant for… it's all about an ever-evolving, spiraling up of our spirit's expression in the world. The evolving is never done. We're never done. That means there is always room for expansion and growth. It means we can always choose to thrive in whatever space we are in at any given moment. It's about mindset and intention, really. It's never about perfection. In this way, you can think of the goal of experiencing a vibrant life as directional. It's meant to pull you towards a higher state of being, like some gravitational force. That state of being is not a destination you reach and then you're done. It's an ongoing journey. And if the directional pull only moves you one inch further today or five feet closer tomorrow… or if you have a quantum leap into your next best level of self-expression… or if you feel like you are sliding backward years in your evolution… it is all ok. Because it ALL matters and it's ALL valuable. That's because all of it, even the bits that don't feel so vibrant, help you to evolve into who you are meant to be. It's all part of the journey that you're on. I think it's powerful, in fact, to train ourselves out of thinking of things from the perspective of “sliding backward'. On those days when we engage our egoic doubts and fears and assumptions and expectations, our limiting beliefs, and self-sabotaging strategies… when we engage in our humanness more than we engage our spiritual nature… it's not a failure. It's not a step backward. It is, in fact, part of the experience as a whole. The egoic human part of us isn't less important than the spiritual part of us. It's there to help us see and value and strive toward the spiritual part of us. We need our humanness. So even when we experience what feels like a failure or setback, it's a myth that that is a less valuable part of us or that it in some way counteracts our goal of evolving. It IS in fact, the evolving. It IS the journey to see that part of us at work and to see all aspects of our human and spiritual nature and choose what of us we will express in any given moment. We never leave the path of our own evolution. The whole of the experience is something to celebrate and embrace. When we can train ourselves to see our experience from that perspective, we don't need to be perfect. We simply need to be aware, intentional, and engaged in the pursuit, fully immersed in the human and spiritual experiences of ourselves. That alone will change you forever. That alone deeply connects you with the something bigger than you. I love all of this stuff and I hope that you do, too. One of my favorite things about vibrant living is that it's so popular right now. There is an entire industry around flourishing. The field of positive psychology studies things like resilience, gratitude, and altruism. Neuroscience studies things like the effects of loneliness on our brains. People like Ariana Huffington are rethinking how we live and work, so that we prioritize wellness and end burnout. Mindfulness apps like Calm and Headspace are wildly popular and raising millions in funding rounds. Wellness tourism, like a retreat in Bali, is a $639 billion industry. The spa economy alone is worth $119 billion. Bookstores are full of resources on happiness, meaning, habit formation, emotional intelligence, mindset, mindfulness, and human performance. Human Flourishing is having a moment. This isn't fluff. Ancient wisdom and spiritual traditions have long known what science is now proving… That tools like meditation, visualization, and breathwork serve us in powerful ways. That energy centers are real, and the mind-body connection is unmistakable. That mindfulness, connection, and having a sense of purpose are keys to happiness and wellbeing. That cultivating a sense of awe, practicing gratitude, and integrating play and rest into your life, will drastically enhance the quality of your life. I value all this stuff so much I use it in my own life, and I incorporate it into my coaching programs that help professional women flourish in midlife. It brings me immense joy to integrate the science-backed practices with the spiritual and ancient wisdom along with intuition, and creative principles. I've seen it create powerful transformations in my own life and with my clients and coaching colleagues. And what I know is this… Vibrant living is something you can do intentionally. Thriving is a choice. You can craft your own best life along your personal path by leveraging the old and new, the known and the proven, the intuitive and the rational, the masculine and feminine. Or as I like to call it all.. the science and the magic. Indeed, human flourishing is definitely having a moment. I don't know about you, but I'm determined to live my best life and I'm on a mission to help others do the same. I want you to know that it is ok to want more than a safe, average, good on paper, pleasant life. It's ok to want a deeply satisfying life that is full of joy and meaning and so much more. We are meant to thrive. When you feel yourself thinking… something is missing. Something is off or wrong in my life. I should be happier, right? Is there something more to life? The answer is yes... you are MEANT for something more. And that “more” is found by reconnecting to yourself, to how you truly want to be in this world and then learning to intentionally be that. It's why I take this stand for YOU and me and every other person on this journey… here it is: You deserve your best life, and the world needs the highest version of you. Those two things are related, and they are worthy of your attention because you are the only one who can create the life your soul craves… and when you do it, everyone around you benefits because a thriving version of you is better able to contribute to the world and the people in it.. and because experiencing yourself fully is your right and your primary purpose! It is time to be fully expressed in the world. When we do this, we create a vibrant life full of SPARKABLE MOMENTS™ that light our spirit on fire and awaken us in unexpected ways. They may be moments of inspiration, or insights; moments of deep connection, to other people, or the world around us, or to our authentic self. Whatever they are, Sparkable Moments™ leave us feeling expanded, more open, more alive, more aware. Living our best life, true to who we are and what our spirit wants is what produces the Sparkable Moments™ and the vibrant life that is so good for us and the world. Imagine what is possible in a world full of self-realized, happy, fulfilled, on-purpose people living in a way that lights up their spirit! If you feel ready for that, I want to invite you to join the Flittersphere™. It's a space to connect with other women who are eager to revel in people, and possibilities, and purpose as they do this soul-satisfying work. There is a link to the online community in the show notes. I hope you'll join us in the Flittersphere™ as you embrace your own journey to your best life. To get you started on that journey, or to help supplement it, I've also included a link in the show notes to a worksheet that will help you begin to explore what you want in each area of your life and what holds you back. I invite you to complete the activity as a gift to yourself… a few moments of purposely focusing on what you'd love in your life as if you actually matter. Because you do. I think many of us tend to put others before ourselves, often to our own detriment. We think it's the right thing to do but that's not always the case. We spend all of our energy trying to do and be everything to everyone and we have nothing left for ourselves. By the time we hit midlife, living this way can leave us stressed out, burned out, exhausted, unhappy, resentful, etc., and it likely leaves us struggling in more than one area of our lives – our health, our relationships, our career, our creative expression, and more. It is ok to question how you are living and if it serves you. I hope you can see from today's show that creating your vibrant life is good for you and the world around you. You deserve nothing less. It's your right and, if you want it, it is your responsibility to build it. Vibrancy is a choice, and while making choices that serve us can feel scary sometimes, it's actually a very good thing. Intentionality is a strength. Showing up for yourself, as yourself, is a superpower. I feel so strongly about this that I have built an entire group coaching program that will help you shift your life so you can live vibrantly… with joy, meaning, and wellbeing, aligned to your gifts and strengths and to your true nature and purpose, living intentionally and functioning optimally, in service of your highest good and what your genius spirit wants for you. The program is opening for enrollment soon and if you feel called to do this work in your life, I invite you to join in. As a special gift in celebration of launching this Sparkable Moments™ Podcast, I'm giving you a discount code that will take 15% off the program price and it will be good for the first 3 months after launch. The code is SYVL15. So, an abbreviation for Shift into Your Vibrant Life™ 15. Write that down and then join the Flittersphere™ community and watch for the launch announcement. I hope that the concept of intentionally creating your vibrant life resonates with you and that you'll join us on this journey. Ok… that wraps up today's episode. In the next episode, I'll share a personal story of how I showed up for myself in midlife so I could live more vibrantly. And I'll talk about how the constant quest to live fully, to not waste this life, has driven me and tortured me, and how it finally freed me to live authentically by pursuing what my spirit wants. I hope you'll listen in as we discuss the power of a midlife shift… and why it may be time to focus on YOUR midlife shift. If you enjoyed this show join the ongoing conversation in the Flittersphere™ and share what resonated with you. There's a link in the show notes. Also, please share the podcast with your friends and subscribe so you don't miss a thing! Thank you so much for listening to this inaugural episode of the Sparkable Moments™ podcast. I hope you'll come back often to have more conversations to feed the soul! Thanks for listening to the Sparkable Moments podcast, produced by Purple Chicken Life and shared through the Flittersphere™. I'm Suzette Conway and you can find with me at Flittersphere.com. Remember… you deserve to have your most vibrant life and the world needs the highest version of you. Those two things are related, and they are worthy of your attention because you are the only one who can create the life your soul craves… and when you do, everyone around you benefits! So go on, be vibrant!

Afsnit 338. Jeppe Druedahl. Jeppe er lektor i økonomi på økonomisk institut på Københavns universitet. Udover det er han en del af centeret “Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality”. Kort sagt ligger Jeppe inde med en helt masse viden om økonomi, en viden han glædeligt deler ud af i dagens afsnit. Er ulighed farligt? Har corona økonomiske konsekvenser for vores børn og deres børn? Og ville der ikke være god økonomi i at genetabere Kalmarunionen? Alt det, og meget mere, får vi Jeppes bud på i dag. Gå fornøjelse, Christian.

John Von Neumann was born in Hungary at the tail end of the Astro-Hungarian Empire. The family was made a part of the nobility and as a young prodigy in Budapest, He learned languages and by 8 years old was doing calculus. By 17 he was writing papers on polynomials. He wrote his dissertation in 1925 he added to set theory with the axiom of foundation and the notion of class, or properties shared by members of a set. He worked on the minimax theorem in 1928, the proof of which established zero-sum games and started another discipline within math, game theory. By 1929 he published the axiom system that led to Von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel set theory. And by 1932 he'd developed foundational work on ergodic theory which would evolve into a branch of math that looks at the states of dynamical systems, where functions can describe a points time dependence in space. And so he of course penned a book on quantum mechanics the same year. Did we mention he was smart and given the way his brain worked it made sense that he would eventually gravitate into computing. He went to the best schools with other brilliant scholars who would go on to be called the Martians. They were all researching new areas that required more and more computing - then still done by hand or a combination of hand and mechanical calculators. The Martians included De Hevesy, who won a Nobel prize for Chemistry. Von Kármán got the National Medal of Science and a Franklin Award. Polanyl developed the theory of knowledge and the philosophy of science. Paul Erdős was a brilliant mathematician who published over 1,500 articles. Edward Teller is known as the father of the hydrogen bomb, working on nuclear energy throughout his life and lobbying for the Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars. Dennis Gabor wrote Inventing the Future and won a Nobel Prize in Physics. Eugene Wigner also took home a Nobel Prize in Physics and a National Medal of Science. Leo Szilard took home an Albert Einstein award for his work on nuclear chain reactions and joined in the Manhattan Project as a patent holder for a nuclear reactor. Physicists and brilliant scientists. And here's a key component to the explosion in science following World War II: many of them fled to the United States and other western powers because they were Jewish, to get away from the Nazis, or to avoid communists controlling science. And then there was Harsanyl, Halmos, Goldmark, Franz Alexander, Orowan, and John Kemeny who gave us BASIC. They all contributed to the world we live in today - but von Neumann sometimes hid how smart he was, preferring to not show just how much arithmetic computed through his head. He was married twice and loved fast cars, fine food, bad jokes, and was an engaging and enigmatic figure. He studied measure theory and broke dimension theory into algebraic operators. He studied topological groups, operator algebra, spectral theory, functional analysis and abstract Hilbert space. Geometry and Lattice theory. As with other great thinkers, some of his work has stood the test of time and some has had gaps filled with other theories. And then came the Manhattan project. Here, he helped develop explosive lenses - a key component to the nuclear bomb. Along the way he worked on economics and fluid mechanics. And of course, he theorized and worked out the engineering principals for really big explosions. He was a commissioner of the Atomic Energy Commission and at the height of the Cold War after working out game theory, developed the concept of mutually assured destruction - giving the world hydrogen bombs and ICBMs and reducing the missile gap. Hard to imagine but at the times the Soviets actually had a technical lead over the US, which was proven true when they launched Sputnik. As with the other Martians, he fought Communism and Fasciscm until his death - which won him a Medal of Freedom from then president Eisenhower. His friend Stanislaw Ulam developed the modern Markov Chain Monte Carlo method and Von Neumann got involved in computing to work out those calculations. This combined with where his research lay landed him as an early power user of ENIAC. He actually heard about the machine at a station while waiting for a train. He'd just gotten home from England and while we will never know if he knew of the work Turing was doing on Colossus at Bletchley Park, we do know that he offered Turing a job at the Institute for Advanced Study that he was running in Princeton before World War II and had read Turing's papers, including “On Computable Numbers” and understood the basic concepts of stored programs - and breaking down the logic into zeros and ones. He discussed using ENIAC to compute over 333 calculations per second. He could do a lot in his head, but he wasn't that good of a computer. His input was taken and when Eckert and Mauchly went from ENIAC to EDVAC, or the Electronic Discrete Variable Calculator, the findings were published in a paper called “First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC” - a foundational paper in computing for a number of reasons. One is that Mauchly and Eckert had an entrepreneurial spirit and felt that not only should their names have been on the paper but that it was probably premature and so they quickly filed a patent in 1945, even though some of what they told him that went into the paper helped to invalidate the patent later. They considered these trade secrets and didn't share in von Neumann's idea that information must be set free. In the paper lies an important contribution, Von Neumann broke down the parts of a modern computer. He set the information for how these would work free. He broke down the logical blocks of how a computer works into the modern era. How once we strip away the electromechanical computers that a fully digital machine works. Inputs go into a Central Processing Unit, which has an instruction register, a clock to keep operations and data flow in sync, and a counter - it does the math. It then uses quick-access memory, which we'd call Random Access Memory, or RAM today, to make processing data instructions faster. And it would use long-term memory for operations that didn't need to be as highly available to the CPU. This should sound like a pretty familiar way to architect devices at this point. The result would be sent to an output device. Think of a modern Swift app for an iPhone - the whole of what the computer did could be moved into a single wafer once humanity worked out how first transistors and then multiple transistors on a single chip worked. Yet another outcome of the paper was to inspire Turing and others to work on computers after the war. Turing named his ACE or Automatic Computing Engine out of respect to Charles Babbage. That led to the addition of storage to computers. After all, punched tape was used for Colossus during the war and and punched cards and tape had been around for awhile. It's ironic that we think of memory as ephemeral data storage and storage as more long-term storage. But that's likely more to do with the order these scientific papers came out than anything - and homage to the impact each had. He'd write The Computer and the Brain, Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, Continuous Geometry, and other books. He also studied DNA and cognition and weather systems, inferring we could predict the results of climate change and possibly even turn back global warming - which by 1950 when he was working on it was already acknowledged by scientists. As with many of the early researchers in nuclear physics, he died of cancer - invoking Pascal's wager on his deathbed. He died in 1957 - just a few years too early to get a Nobel Prize in one of any number of fields. One of my favorite aspects of Von Neumann was that he was a lifelong lover of history. He was a hacker - bouncing around between subjects. And he believed in human freedom. So much so that this wealthy and charismatic pseudo-aristocrat would dedicate his life to the study of knowledge and public service. So thank you for the Von Neumann Architecture and breaking computing down into ways that it couldn't be wholesale patented too early to gain wide adoption. And thank you for helping keep the mutually assured destruction from happening and for inspiring generations of scientists in so many fields. I'm stoked to be alive and not some pile of nuclear dust. And to be gainfully employed in computing. He had a considerable impact in both.

Meddelelsen kom mandag i Beijing. Fra 1-barns-politikken til 2-børn-politikken. Nu må kineserne få tre børn. Verden over falder befolkningstilvæksten. Befolkningstallet falder allerede i flere lande. I 2100 vil kineserne være halveret. Udfordringerne overalt bliver enorme. Vi skal arbejde længere. Hvem skal tage sig af de flere ældre - og har vi råd til velfærd til den tid? Gæster: Flemming Konradsen, Professor ved Københavns Universitet med mere end 25 års erfaring i global sundhed. Mette Gørtz, professor i økonomi på Økonomisk Institut, Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI), ved Københavns Universitet. Forsker i familieøkonomi, sundhed og aldring. Vært: Steffen Gram. (Sendt første gang 1. juni).

Alex Nowrasteh is the director of immigration and trade at the Cato Institute’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies. His popular publications have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post, and most other major publications in the United States. His peer-reviewed academic publications have appeared in The World Bank Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Public Choice, and others. Alex regularly appears on Fox News, MSNBC, Bloomberg, NPR, and numerous television and radio stations across the United States.

Gianni De Fraja is Professor of Economics at the University of Nottingham, Professor of Public Economics (part-time) at the Università di Roma "Tor Vergata" and Research Fellow at CEPR. He has been Head of the Economics department at the University of Leicester, where he held the William Tyler Chair in Economics; previously he worked at the Universities of York and Bristol, and held visiting posts in Tokyo, Bonn and Barcelona. He received a DPhil from Oxford in 1989, and before that studied in Pisa and Siena. His research interests are in the areas of labour and public economics, and the economics of education. He has published in Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Political Economy, International Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Rand Journal of Economics among others. Photo by Sean Benesh on Unsplash A Correction Podcast Episodes RSS

Economists on Zoom Getting Coffee hosts Carol Graham, known globally by her pioneering work on a field known as economics of happiness and of wellbeing, a field where she is recognized as one of its most influential scholars. With Carol we talked about the most important findings she've had in her research when tracking people's happiness and wellbeing, both in the US and around the globe, as well as discussing whether it is wellbeing that causes changes in income or the other way around. We also discussed her most recent research on "deaths of despair" in America.Graham is the Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a College Park Professor at the University of Maryland, and a Senior Scientist at Gallup. She is author of numerous books, such as “Happiness for All? Unequal Lives and Hopes in Pursuit of the American Dream” (Princeton University Press, 2017) and “The Pursuit of Happiness: An Economy of Well-Being” (Brookings, 2011; published in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and paperback), among many others. She is also the author of dozens of articles in leading academic journals and has also authored numerous chapters in edited volumes. She is an associate editor at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and on the editorial boards of numerous other economic journals.For future episodes please don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to this podcast, and don't forget to visit our website www.economistsonzoomgettingcoffee.com to WATCH this and other episodes, and to get more information about the show. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danybahar.substack.com

Peter Boettke is an American Economist and Professor at George Mason University, with particle disciplines in Austrian economics, institutional economics, and comparative economics, philosophy, the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism, and the Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. As a teacher, Boettke is dedicated to cultivating enthusiasm for the economic way of thinking and the importance of economic ideas in future generations of scholars and citizens, being awarded with numerous teaching awards. He also is the Editor of the Review of Austrian Economics and the Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. In today's episode, some of the things we talked about were: how to leverage the internet to get an education without going to college, how to spark curiosity in people through positivity, philosophy on how to live a better life, creativity between artists and scientists, is capitalism dying, what motivates “bad” people's actions, how to be a life-long learner to stay young of mind and much more! Dangerously Good with Jay Sikand is a long-form podcast where Jay explores dangerously good topics and ideas! This show is about learning new things and sharing that journey with the world! Expanding the minds and imaginations of those who want to partake. Expect new episodes and clips every Tuesday! Watch the podcast on the Dangerously Good YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lea0YVAB2Yo&t=2s) & For CLIPS of the podcast, subscribe to the Dangerously Good Clips Youtube channel! (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChmDAQzfpNdmEi10lqBReuQ) About Jay Sikand: He is a podcaster, actor, tech nerd, and lover of life that explores ideas from entertainment, technology, philosophy, politics, health, fitness to whatever else is intriguing. He has conversations with friends and people of strong morals, ambitions, and intelligence within their fields. Anyone who wants to journey through enlightening conversions that contain dangerously good information should tune in! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jay-sikand/support

CEO Job The pandemic, despite all the horrors it has brought, has provided some people with more time for self-reflection, majorly people in Business. Game theory is a mathematical context but very relevant to change the game of business. Von Neumann and Morgenstern published Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, and provided a systematic way of understanding … Continue reading Game Theory The post Game Theory first appeared on CEO Job. The post Game Theory appeared first on CEO Job.

We don't always behave the way economic models say we will. We don't save enough for retirement. We order dessert when we're supposed to be dieting. We give donations when we could keep our money for ourselves. Again and again, we fail to act rationally and selfishly — the way traditional economics expects us to. We've seen this during the coronavirus crisis: People selflessly mobilizing to help each other, like the retired Kansas farmer who sent an N95 mask to New York to help a nurse or a doctor. At the same time, though, we've also seen some people do exactly what economic theory assumes they will: Place their own self-interest above everything else. There are those who have even tried to profit from the pandemic, like the man in New York accused of stockpiling N95 masks to sell at an inflated price. Think about this man who hoarded masks and the man who donated a mask. In almost every sphere, our public and economic policies are designed around the assumption that most of us are going to behave like the first man. Legislators pass laws that take aim at transgressors. Regulators and police departments come up with rules that punish lawbreakers. Parents and teachers discipline truants.

In this episode, PlanetLaundry columnist Stephen Bean shares the latest installment of his column "The Business Mind" entitled, Understanding Our Economic Behavior: How Our Psychological Makeup Impacts Our Financial Decisions. You can read the full story in the July 2020 edition of the magazine. PlanetLaundry is the magazine of the Coin Laundry Association. Subscribe for PlanetLaundry at www.planetlaundry.com/subscribe.

In March 2015, the Costa Rican tax administration and the World Bank implementedan economic behavior project to designed to increase collections from the non-filing taxpayers. The administration sent emails with messages targeted at different taxpayer segments to persuade them to fulfill their tax obligations. In this episode we explore the project and its results.

In this episode of Stuck@Om, I'm talking with an old friend, Maria Konnikova. Maria holds a Ph.D. in Psychology, is the author of multiple best-selling books, and is also a professional poker player. We immediately dive into her book “The Confidence Game” about how con artists convince people of unbelievable things. We dissect how movies and TV glamorize the con artists while placing blame on those who were conned. We even touch on our shared love for Sherlock Holmes.    We enter into a much deeper discussion about Maria's most recent book “The Biggest Bluff”, which was released June 23rd. When Maria wrote the book, she set out to write about luck and the things we can and can't control. After reading John Von Neumann's book on game theory, she realized poker was the perfect medium for her exploration into chance. Erik Seidel — a renowned poker player — agreed to let Maria shadow him to learn more about poker. Maria never thought this opportunity would lead to becoming a professional poker player.    We talk about what poker has taught her about emotional control and how you have to learn to identify your emotions to become an expert poker player. The goal isn't to move away from being emotional — because it's human nature. But you must identify your emotions and learn to remove them from the equation. You must also identify your triggers: What types of people make you mad? What interactions make you upset? What excites you or makes you happy?   We further delve into the psychology of poker and the topics of psychological distancing, physical distancing, and how to prevent emotions before you're triggered. We chat about how emotions can be essential to decision-making. Maria also shares about her experience as a professional poker player and what she learned about herself throughout her journey. Our conversation travels deep into psychology, emotion, self-awareness, and the uncertainty of life. Please listen — Maria's captivating story cannot be missed.    Subscribe to THE OM SHOW   Outline of This Episode We talk about Maria's three books What does TV get right about con artists? How Maria landed on writing a book about poker Making decisions because of and in spite of emotion How emotional control impacts the game of poker — and life Maria's journey to becoming a best-selling author Maria's time as a professional poker player What Maria learned about herself from poker  The uncertainty of mortality that's part of our being How epidemiologists use poker as a model for disease spread Resources & People Mentioned Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by John von Neumann Erik Seidel Maria Konnikova's Books Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes The Confidence Game NEW: The Biggest Bluff Connect with Maria Maria's Website Follow on Twitter Connect With Om www.Om.co Om on Twitter: @Om Om on Instagram: @Om

Learn about how your ancestors’ work habits might be influencing your own; the first evidence of an underwater dinosaur; and how an aquarium successfully reproduced coral in captivity for the first time. Societies with a history of hard farming labor tend to work more hours today by Kelsey Donk Arduous farm labor in the past means longer working hours today. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/oupu-afl041420.php  Fouka, V., & Schläpfer, A. (2020). Agricultural Returns to Labour and the Origins of Work ethics*. The Economic Journal. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaa029  Luzer, D. (2013, September 4). Study: The Protestant Work Ethic Is Real. Pacific Standard. https://psmag.com/economics/protestant-worth-ethic-real-65544  Spenkuch, J. L. (2017). Religion and work: Micro evidence from contemporary Germany. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 135, 193–214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.01.011  Glaeser, E. L., Alesina, A., & Sacerdote, B. (2012). Work and Leisure in the U.S. and Europe: Why So Different. Harvard.Edu. https://scholar.harvard.edu/glaeser/publications/work-and-lesiure-us-and-europe-why-so-different  Scientists have discovered the first unambiguous evidence of a water-dwelling dinosaur by Grant Currin New fossils rewrite the story of dinosaur evolution and ecology - and change the appearance of Spinosaurus. (2020, April 29). National Geographic Society Newsroom. https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2020/04/29/new-fossils-rewrite-the-story-of-dinosaur-evolution-and-ecology-and-change-the-appearance-of-spinosaurus/  Ibrahim, N., Maganuco, S., Dal Sasso, C., Fabbri, M., Auditore, M., Bindellini, G., Martill, D. M., Zouhri, S., Mattarelli, D. A., Unwin, D. M., Wiemann, J., Bonadonna, D., Amane, A., Jakubczak, J., Joger, U., Lauder, G. V., & Pierce, S. E. (2020). Tail-propelled aquatic locomotion in a theropod dinosaur. Nature, 581(7806), 67–70. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2190-3  An aquarium successfully reproduced coral in captivity for the first time by Grant Currin Alaa Elassar, CNN. (2020, April 22). How scientists could save coral from brink of extinction. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/us/florida-aquarium-first-reproduce-ridhed-cactus-coral-trnd/index.html  ‌The Florida Aquarium Becomes First Organization in History to Induce Spawning of Atlantic Coral; A New Hope to Save Florida’s Reefs. (2019). Flaquarium.org. https://www.flaquarium.org/pressroom/posts/the-florida-aquarium-becomes-first-organization-in-history-to-induce-spawning-of-atlantic-coral-a-ne US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (2020). What Are Corals? Corals Tutorial. NOAA.gov. https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_corals/coral01_intro.html  Getting Coral To Reproduce. (2019, August 25). NPR.org. https://www.npr.org/2019/08/25/754122930/getting-coral-to-reproduce Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer. You can also listen to our podcast as part of your Alexa Flash Briefing; Amazon smart speakers users, click/tap “enable” here: https://www.amazon.com/Curiosity-com-Curiosity-Daily-from/dp/B07CP17DJY 

This episode welcomes our friend and colleague Steve Adelkoff to the studio. Steve shares an enormous amount of wisdom and insight embedded in stories of Economic Behavior, Prospect Theory, DeGlobalization and Off-Balance sheet deals he has brokered around the world. Be sure to tune in as Steve even turns the tide and decides to start sending complex questions back over the table at Patrick & Dennis!   00:00   Welcome 00:30   Opening Remarks 01:46   Steve’s Journey 10:10   From Yachts to Dinghy’s 18:00   Shifting Capital Wealth 21:37   Emerging Economies 37:30:  Steve Takes over as Host 51:10   Closing Thoughts: Dennis 52:00   Closing Thoughts: Patrick 54:10   Support Click here to check out the live video of this podcast!   

Welcome to Money and the Mind! On today’s episode, Andy and Aaron discuss:-Aaron implementing a show recommendation-Aaron: the most helpful thing I learned this decade-Andy’s bout of depression-Why saving money is difficult-Using an internal locus of control approach to saving-Various ways to help with savingResources/links:-MarketWatch tweet-Article on Dr. Brad Klontz research: Getting Sentimental Could Increase Your Savings-The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior (full paper or a brief NPR link)-I Will Teach You To Be Rich-SuperBetterNot referenced but helpful:-How to save $1,000 in a month-Morgan Housel: Let Me Convince You To Save Money

Let's start with Karl Popper and the Paradox of Tolerance. This is something that has vexed me ever since I found out about it. The idea is this: think of society as having a sliding scale between tolerance and intolerance, with regard to people, with regard to ideas, politics, religion, race, sexual and gender identity, and so forth. The more the scale tips toward tolerance, the more intolerant ideas are sanctioned, so both tolerance and intolerance result in intolerance. Intolerance prevails either way. And the only way around this is to embrace intolerance, and then the question becomes, what kind of intolerance do we truly wish to prevail? Works Cited: Belief and Identity. (2019, August 3). Retrieved December 26, 2019, from A Satanist Reads the Bible website: https://asatanistreadsthebible.com/belief-and-identity/ Brandt, F., Brill, M., & Suksompong, W. (2016). An ordinal minimax theorem. Games and Economic Behavior, 95, 107–112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2015.12.010 Brown, D. (2017, August 20). How One Man Convinced 200 Ku Klux Klan Members To Give Up Their Robes. Retrieved December 26, 2019, from NPR.org website: https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinced-200-ku-klux-klan-members-to-give-up-their-robes Clark, D. J. (2018). Behind the Curve [Documentary]. Evil. (2019, June 8). Retrieved December 23, 2019, from A Satanist Reads the Bible website: https://asatanistreadsthebible.com/evil/ Farrelly, C. P. (Ed.). (2004). Contemporary political theory: A reader. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE. Huntington, S. P. (2011). The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order (Simon & Schuster hardcover ed). New York: Simon & Schuster. Judis, J. B. (2018). The nationalist revival: Trade, immigration, and the revolt against globalization. New York, NY: Columbia Global Reports. On Taake and Antifa. (n.d.). Retrieved December 23, 2019, from Metal Trenches website: https://metaltrenches.com/reviews/on-taake-and-antifa-1377 Popper, K. R., Ryan, A., & Gombrich, E. H. (2013). The Open Society and Its Enemies. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Rushin, S., & Edwards, G. S. (2018). The Effect of President Trump's Election on Hate Crimes. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3102652 Schmitt, C. (2005). Political theology: Four chapters on the concept of sovereignty (University of Chicago Press ed). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. The Official Taake Website. (2007, March 29). Retrieved December 23, 2019, from https://web.archive.org/web/20070329042528/http://taake.theblacksun.org/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/asatanistreadsthebible/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/asatanistreadsthebible/support

By Nitin and Neel DISCLAIMER - All speakers are high school students Eckart, J. (2017). “Batteries Can Be Part of the Fight against Climate Change - If We Do These Five Things.” World Economic Forum. Retrieved from www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/11/battery-batteries-electric-cars-carbon-sustainable-power-energy/. International Energy Agency (2018). “Global EV Outlook 2018 : Key Findings.” GEVO 2018. Retrieved from www.iea.org/gevo2018/. Ji, S., & Chen, B. (2016). LCA-based carbon footprint of a typical wind farm in china. Energy Procedia, 88, 250-256. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876610217303156. Rîcă, R. (2011, December 8). Bach Cello Suite No.1 - Prelude (Yo-Yo Ma). Retrieved from https://youtu.be/PCicM6i59_I. Wu, P., Ma, X., Ji, J., & Ma, Y. (2017). Review on life cycle assessment of energy payback of solar photovoltaic systems and a case study. Energy Procedia, 105, 68-74. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876610216302314. Zivin, J. S. G., Kotchen, M. J., & Mansur, E. T. (2014). Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of marginal emissions: Implications for electric cars and other electricity-shifting policies. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 107, 248-268. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268114000808.

Silvia Saccardo, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Social and Decision Sciences department in the Dietrich College of Humanities & Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. Our conversation with Silvia is the fourth in our series on Carnegie Mellon professors.  We sat down with Silvia in Porter Hall on a chilly day at CMU to discuss her findings on how motivated cognition and hidden biases shape our ethical (and unethical) decision-making. Her research on bribery and lying has been published in top peer-reviewed journals and we found her work with the Dictator Game particularly interesting, especially as it relates to measuring what we consider ethical behavior. Dr. Saccardo uses the Dictator Game in her research in a unique way. In one case, she set up the game to put people in situations where they can lie to other players and the results are fascinating. We also discussed the way people are more likely to give blunt feedback to out-group rather than in-group associates. Her findings reveal very interesting aspects of the human condition and how we respond to it. In our grooving session, we discuss the impact of what some people might consider small acts of kindness and how those acts may be construed as small acts of bribery in certain situations (i.e., dinners and small gifts).  This conversation triangulated connections between two of our favorite Behavioral Grooves guests and Silvia and we couldn’t help but call attention to them: Francesca Gino, PhD as a fellow Italian American, and Christina Gravert, PhD as a co-author of papers with Silvia.  We also want to thank Silvia for the opportunity to guest lecture and meet a classroom full of her uber-engaged and enthusiastic students. What a treat.   Links Silvia Saccardo: https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/sds/people/faculty/silvia-saccardo.html …and: https://sites.google.com/site/silviasaccardo/home Carnegie Mellon University: https://www.cmu.edu/ CMU Social and Decision Sciences Department: https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/ Saccardo, Silvia, Aniela Pietrasz, and Uri Gneezy. "On the Size of the Gender Difference in Competitiveness." Management Science. Forthcoming. Gneezy, Uri, Christina Gravert, Silvia Saccardo, and Franziska Tausch. "A must lie situation–avoiding giving negative feedback." Games and Economic Behavior 102 (2017): 445-454.   Jovanotti: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro8PdDjKA3o Andrea Bocelli: https://www.youtube.com/andreabocelli   Kurt Nelson: @motivationguru and https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtwnelson/ Tim Houlihan: @THoulihan and https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-houlihan-b-e/ Listen to Behavioral Grooves: https://behavioralgrooves.podbean.com/

William Luther, Ph.D. comes to FAU as an experienced assistant professor, having previously been at Kenyon College. His expertise is in monetary economics and alternative currencies, including Bitcoin. He is also the director of the Sound Money Project at the American Institute for Economic Research, and an adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives in Washington D.C. The author of more than two dozen articles, he has published in such leading journals as Economic Inquiry, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Contemporary Economic Policy, Journal of Private Enterprise, Public Choice, and others. His work has also appeared in leading news outlets in the popular press, including The Economist, Forbes, and U.S. News & World Report. Will earned his Ph.D. from George Mason University.Support the show (https://business.fau.edu/giving/)

Sarah Skwire is a Senior Fellow at Liberty Fund, a non-profit educational foundation, and the co-author of the college writing textbook, Writing with a Thesis, which is in its 12th edition. Sarah has published a range of academic articles on subjects from Shakespeare to zombies and the broken window fallacy, and her work has appeared in journals as varied as Literature and Medicine, The George Herbert Journal, and The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Sarah writes a regular column for the Freeman Online and blogs for the Fraser Institute and Bleeding Heart Libertarians. Sarah’s work on literature and economics has also appeared in Newsweek, The Freeman and in Cato Unbound, and she is an occasional lecturer for IHS, SFL, and other organizations. Her poetry has appeared, among other places, in Standpoint, The New Criterion, and The Vocabula Review. Sarah graduated with honors in English from Wesleyan University, and earned a MA and PhD in English from the University of Chicago. Show Notes: www.economicrockstar.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/economicrockstar  

Alex Nowrasteh of the CATO Institute joined us Tuesday,  April 11th, 2017 for a discussion on refugee and immigration policy. Alex Nowrasteh is an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. His popular publications have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post, the Houston Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, and elsewhere. His academic publications have appeared in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the Fletcher Security Review, and Public Choice. Alex has appeared on Fox News, Bloomberg, and numerous television and radio stations across the United States. He is the coauthor, with Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, of the booklet Open Immigration: Yea and Nay (Encounter Broadsides, 2014). He is a native of Southern California and received a BA in economics from George Mason University and a Master of Science in economic history from the London School of Economics.

ABOUT THIS DISCUSSION With immigration likely to be one of the cornerstone issues of Donald Trump's presidency the debate over immigration, particularly in regards to national security, is far from resolved. At this event Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Nowrasteh will debate the many important issues concerning immigration to the U.S. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Alex Nowrasteh is an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. His popular publications have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post, the Houston Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, and elsewhere. His academic publications have appeared in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the Fletcher Security Review, and Public Choice. He coauthored, with Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, the booklet Open Immigration: Yea and Nay (Encounter Broadsides, 2014). He is a native of Southern California and received a BA in economics from George Mason University and a Master of Science in economic history from the London School of Economics. Matthew J. O'Brien joined FAIR in 2016 and is responsible for managing FAIR's research activities. In the past he has held a wide variety of positions focusing on immigration issues, in both the government and private sector. Immediately prior to joining FAIR, Matt served as the Chief of the National Security Division (NSD) within the Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate (FDNS) at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). There he was responsible for formulating and implementing procedures to protect the legal immigration system from national security threats. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in French from the Johns Hopkins University and a Juris Doctor from the University Of Maine School Of Law. ​ Dr. Paul Coyer is a Research Professor at IWP, a contributor in the area of foreign policy, with a focus on Eurasia, for Forbes, and is a Contributing Editor for Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American Foreign Policy, published by the Institute for Religion and Democracy. He also serves as an Associate Professor at the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr, and is a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies.

Dr. Carlos chats with Alex Nowrasteh. He is the immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. His popular publications have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post, Houston Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, and elsewhere. His academic publications have appeared in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the Fletcher Security Review, and Public Choice. Alex has appeared on Fox News, Bloomberg, and numerous television and radio stations across the United States. He is the coauthor, with Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, of the booklet Open Immigration: Yea & Nay (Encounter Broadsides, 2014).

On this show, Ron and Ed will explore how we humans are comprised of both Mr. Spock—our rational side—and Homer Simpson—our irrational side, and how to optimize decisions from both sides. Learn why economists assume people are “rational” even though, at times, this assumption seems to be false––e.g., why do we leaves tips in restaurants we will never visit again? Anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of human behavior, explore the ideas of the world's most innovative economists, as well as engaging in a thought-provoking and stimulating discussion on a variety of everyday issues confronting people everywhere, will find this show interesting and valuable.

On this show, Ron and Ed will explore how we humans are comprised of both Mr. Spock—our rational side—and Homer Simpson—our irrational side, and how to optimize decisions from both sides. Learn why economists assume people are “rational” even though, at times, this assumption seems to be false––e.g., why do we leaves tips in restaurants we will never visit again? Anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of human behavior, explore the ideas of the world's most innovative economists, as well as engaging in a thought-provoking and stimulating discussion on a variety of everyday issues confronting people everywhere, will find this show interesting and valuable.

On this show, Ron and Ed will explore how we humans are comprised of both Mr. Spock—our rational side—and Homer Simpson—our irrational side, and how to optimize decisions from both sides. Learn why economists assume people are “rational” even though, at times, this assumption seems to be false––e.g., why do we leaves tips in restaurants we will never visit again? Anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of human behavior, explore the ideas of the world's most innovative economists, as well as engaging in a thought-provoking and stimulating discussion on a variety of everyday issues confronting people everywhere, will find this show interesting and valuable.

Carol Graham Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. She is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). Graham book coverCarol Graham is the author of The Pursuit of Happiness: Toward an Economy of Well-Being (Brookings, 2011; also published in Chinese and paperback); Happiness around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires (Oxford University Press, 2009; published in Chinese, Portuguese and paperback); Happiness and Hardship: Opportunity and Insecurity in New Market Economies (with Stefano Pettinato, Brookings, 2002; also published in Spanish); Private Markets for Public Goods: Raising the Stakes in Economic Reform (Brookings, 1998); Safety Nets, Politics and the Poor: Transitions to Market Economies (Brookings, 1994); Peru's APRA (Lynne Rienner, 1992); Improving the Odds: Political Strategies for Institutional Reform in Latin America (co-author, IDB, 1999); and A Half Penny on the Dollar: The Future of Development Aid, with Michael O'Hanlon (Brookings, 1997). She is the editor, with Eduardo Lora, of Paradox and Perceptions: Quality of Life in Latin America (Brookings, 2009); with Susan Collins, of the Brookings Trade Forum 2004: Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality (Brookings, 2006); and, with Nancy Birdsall, of New Markets, New Opportunities? Economic and Social Mobility in a Changing World (Brookings, 1999), and Beyond Trade-Offs: Market Reforms and Equitable Growth in Latin America (Brookings/IDB, 1988). She is the author of articles in journals including the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the World Bank Research Observer, Health Affairs, Health Economics, the Journal of Socio-Economics, World Economics, Foreign Affairs, the Journal of Development Studies, the Journal of Latin American Studies, World Development, the Journal of Happiness Studies, and of numerous chapters in edited volumes, including the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. She is an associate editor at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and on the editorial boards of numerous other economic journals. She is currently serving on a National Academy of Sciences Panel which is assessing the relevance of well-being metrics for policy. Graham served as Vice President and Director of Governance Studies at Brookings from 2002-2004. She has also served as a Special Advisor to the Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. She has also been a consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, United Nations Development Program, and the Harvard Institute for International Development, helping to design safety net programs in Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe.

Alex Nowrasteh joins Aaron and Trevor to talk about immigration. Immigration policy provokes much debate, anger, and often some pretty ugly politics. But immigration isn’t just a matter of policy, of what effects immigrants have on America’s economic outlook—immigration raises important moral issues as well, because it impacts basic human rights.Nowrasteh is the immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Houston Chronicle,Boston Globe, San Jose Mercury, Richmond Times-Dispatch,Huffington Post, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and elsewhere. He has appeared on Fox News and numerous television and radio stations across the United States. He received his B.A. in Economics from George Mason University and MSc in Economic History from the London School of Economics. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr. Laurence R. Iannaccone is a professor of economics and Director of the Institute for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Society (IRES) at Chapman University in Orange County. He is also the President of the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture (ASREC). He is considered one of the pioneers of the field, and one of its most staunch advocates. In more than fifty publications, Iannaccone has applied economic insights to study denominational growth, church attendance, religious giving, conversion, extremism, international trends, and many other aspects of religion and spirituality. His articles have appeared in numerous academic journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the American Journal of Sociology, and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. He is currently writing two books on the on the economics of religion. Dr. Iannaccone's education includes a master’s in mathematics and his doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago. Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications: "Extremism and the Economics of Religion." The Economic Record (Journal of the Economic Society of Australia) 88 (June, 2012), pp. 110–115. “Funding the Faiths: Toward a Theory of Religious Finance” (with Feler Bose). The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion, edited by Rachel McCleary. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. 2011, pp. 323-342. “Lessons from Delphi: Religious Markets and Spiritual Capitals” (with Colleen E. Haight and Jared Rubin). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 77:3 (March, 2011), pp. 326-338. “Economics of Religion.” (with William S. Bainbridge). The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion, Second Edition, edited by John Hinnells. Routledge: 2010, pp. 461-475. “The Economics of Religion: Invest Now, Repent Later?” Faith and Economics 55 (Spring 2010): pp. 1-10. “Economics of Religion.” (with Eli Berman). Chapter in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, edited by Stephen Durlauf and Lawrence Blume. 2008

David Rose of the University of Missouri, St. Louis and the author of The Moral Foundation of Economic Behavior talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the book and the role morality plays in prosperity. Rose argues that morality plays a crucial role in prosperity and economic development. Knowing that the people you trade with have a principled aversion to exploiting opportunities for cheating in dealing with others allows economic actors to trust one another. That in turn allows for the widespread specialization and interaction through markets with strangers that creates prosperity. In this conversation, Rose explores the nature of the principles that work best to engender trust. The conversation closes with a discussion of the current trend in morality in America and the implications for trust and prosperity.

David Rose of the University of Missouri, St. Louis and the author of The Moral Foundation of Economic Behavior talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the book and the role morality plays in prosperity. Rose argues that morality plays a crucial role in prosperity and economic development. Knowing that the people you trade with have a principled aversion to exploiting opportunities for cheating in dealing with others allows economic actors to trust one another. That in turn allows for the widespread specialization and interaction through markets with strangers that creates prosperity. In this conversation, Rose explores the nature of the principles that work best to engender trust. The conversation closes with a discussion of the current trend in morality in America and the implications for trust and prosperity.

Ariel Rubinstein of Tel Aviv University and New York University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of game theory and behavioral economics, two of the most influential areas of economics in recent years. Drawing on his Afterword for the 60th anniversary edition of Von Neumann and Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, Rubinstein argues that game theory's successes have been quite limited. Rubinstein, himself a game theorist, argues that game theory is unable to yield testable predictions or solutions to public policy problems. He argues that game theorists have a natural incentive to exaggerate its usefulness. In the area of behavioral economics, Rubinstein argues that the experimental results (which often draw on game theory) are too often done in ways that are not rigorous. The conversation concludes with a plea for honesty about what economics can and cannot do.

Ariel Rubinstein of Tel Aviv University and New York University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of game theory and behavioral economics, two of the most influential areas of economics in recent years. Drawing on his Afterword for the 60th anniversary edition of Von Neumann and Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, Rubinstein argues that game theory's successes have been quite limited. Rubinstein, himself a game theorist, argues that game theory is unable to yield testable predictions or solutions to public policy problems. He argues that game theorists have a natural incentive to exaggerate its usefulness. In the area of behavioral economics, Rubinstein argues that the experimental results (which often draw on game theory) are too often done in ways that are not rigorous. The conversation concludes with a plea for honesty about what economics can and cannot do.

Richard Thaler is renowned for his extremely influential contributions to the emerging field of behavioral economics over the last three decades. He has made it his habit to look for data in unusual places. Here he draws on the behavior of New York City taxi cab drivers, game show participants, and National Football League teams to see what can be learned about human behavior. Thaler is Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, and Director of the Center for Decision Research, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Public Affairs] [Business] [Show ID: 20380]

Richard Thaler is renowned for his extremely influential contributions to the emerging field of behavioral economics over the last three decades. He has made it his habit to look for data in unusual places. Here he draws on the behavior of New York City taxi cab drivers, game show participants, and National Football League teams to see what can be learned about human behavior. Thaler is Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, and Director of the Center for Decision Research, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Public Affairs] [Business] [Show ID: 20380]