Three Great Podcast Interviews

1. How Nandan Nilekani brings people together to create lasting impact — Factor Daily podcast

2. Emily Oster schools me on parenthood — Ezra Klein. See also Emily Oster on EconTalk.

This is, on one level, a conversation about some topics of particular interest to me right now — breastfeeding, sleep training, brain development — but, it’s also a conversation about a meta-topic of interest to us all: how we assume experts are basing their confident pronouncements on good data, when, in fact, they often are not.

3. Paul Romer on Growth, Cities, and the State of Economics- EconTalk

I want to start with your thoughts on growth, which we’ve talked about at length here. But I want to talk a recent formulation you gave which I really liked. You contrasted the economics of objects and the economics of ideas. What do you mean by that distinction?