The Joe Walker Podcast
By Joe Walker
Listen to a podcast, please open Podcast Republic app. Available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
Image by Joe Walker
Category: Society & Culture
Open in Apple Podcasts
Open RSS feed
Open Website
Rate for this podcast
Subscribers: 337
Reviews: 1
Episodes: 127
AndyRazz
May 10, 2021
I love the deep dives into thoughts and theories of so many famous thinkers. I love the careful scaffolding that lets me feel like I'm keeping up with the conversation despite the paradigm shifting concepts. "Do yourself a favour"
Description
Well-researched interviews on ideas, technology, and policy. (Plus a recurring series on Australian public policy.)
| Episode | Date |
|---|---|
|
2025 Retrospective — A Listener (Zac Gross) Interviews Me
|
Dec 31, 2025 |
|
Cabinet is Australia's Operating System — Here's How It Works (Glyn Davis & Terry Moran)
|
Dec 22, 2025 |
|
Why Great Powers Sleepwalk to War — A Masterclass with Prof. Hugh White
|
Nov 25, 2025 |
|
Australia's last great act of economic courage — Peter Costello
|
Nov 02, 2025 |
|
The Discovery of The Bacterium Behind 5% of All Cancers — Barry Marshall
|
Aug 26, 2025 |
|
Australia’s ‘Great Stagnation’: Everything You Need to Know About The Productivity Crisis — Greg Kaplan & Michael Brennan
|
Aug 14, 2025 |
|
Francis Fukuyama — AGI and the Recommencement of History
|
Jul 31, 2025 |
|
Laura Deming — On Pausing Biological Time & Preserving the Continuous Self
|
May 20, 2025 |
|
Eight Things I Learned From My Aussie Policy Series
|
May 11, 2025 |
|
Ken Henry — What Killed the Reform Era? [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]
|
May 01, 2025 |
|
Sam Roggeveen — Why the US Won't Fight China for Dominance (and What it Means for Australia) [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]
|
Apr 02, 2025 |
|
Peter Tulip — What Will It Actually Take to Solve the Housing Crisis? [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]
|
Mar 25, 2025 |
|
Judith Brett — How a Benthamite Political Culture Shaped Australia's Electoral System [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]
|
Mar 14, 2025 |
|
Richard Holden & Steven Hamilton — How Australia Gets It Done [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]
|
Mar 04, 2025 |
|
Andrew Leigh — Inequality and Egalitarianism [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]
|
Feb 14, 2025 |
|
Abul Rizvi — Inside Immigration Policy [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]
|
Jan 31, 2025 |
|
Behind the Scenes of My Interview Research Process — Andy Matuschak Crashes My Crib
|
Jan 25, 2025 |
|
Eugene Fama — For Whom Is The Market Efficient?
|
Dec 31, 2024 |
|
Richard Butler — Nuclear Diplomacy at the End of History
|
Nov 29, 2024 |
|
Larry Summers — AGI and the Next Industrial Revolution
|
Oct 21, 2024 |
|
Nassim Taleb — Meditations on Extremistan
|
Sep 19, 2024 |
|
Robert Boyd & Peter Richerson — How Ice Age Climate Chaos Made Humans Cultural Animals
|
Aug 13, 2024 |
|
Lucy Turnbull — Urbanism, YIMBYism, and Solutions to Australia's Housing Crisis (Bonus Live Episode)
|
May 30, 2024 |
|
Bryan Caplan — The Economics of Housing Abundance
|
May 13, 2024 |
|
2023 Retrospective — A Listener Interviews Me
|
Dec 29, 2023 |
|
David Deutsch & Steven Pinker (First Ever Public Dialogue) — AGI, P(Doom), & The Enemies of Progress
|
Dec 19, 2023 |
|
Shruti Rajagopalan — On Spotting Talent, And Making Sense of Rising India
|
Nov 28, 2023 |
|
Raghuram Rajan — Debt, Monetary Policy, and Unintended Consequences
|
Nov 01, 2023 |
|
Peter Singer — Moral Truths and Moral Secrets
|
Sep 19, 2023 |
|
Peter Turchin — Why Societies Fall Apart (And Why the US May Be Next)
|
Aug 30, 2023 |
|
Stephen Wolfram — Constructing the Computational Paradigm
|
Aug 16, 2023 |
|
Katalin Karikó — Forging the mRNA Revolution
|
Aug 01, 2023 |
|
Richard Rhodes — The Making of the Atomic Bomb
|
Jul 25, 2023 |
|
Ken Henry — An Economic Odyssey
|
May 09, 2023 |
|
Palmer Luckey — Science (Non)fiction
|
Apr 25, 2023 |
|
Daniel Kahneman — Dyads, And Other Mysteries
|
Apr 13, 2023 |
|
Talent Is That Which Is Scarce — Tyler Cowen
|
Dec 31, 2022 |
|
Intellectual Exoskeletons — Andy Matuschak
|
Dec 23, 2022 |
|
Rationality And Its Opposite — Steven Pinker
|
Dec 14, 2022 |
|
Against Bayesianism — David Deutsch
|
Apr 24, 2022 |
|
The Lessons Of Afghanistan — William Dalrymple
|
Sep 05, 2021 |
|
The Race That Stopped The Nation — Richard Holden & Steven Hamilton
|
Aug 30, 2021 |
|
Ergodicity — Ole Peters
|
Aug 23, 2021 |
|
The Tyranny Of Merit — Michael Sandel
|
Jun 22, 2021 |
|
The Spectre Of Havoc — Graham Allison
|
Jun 14, 2021 |
|
A General Theory Of Catastrophe — Niall Ferguson
|
Jun 06, 2021 |
|
Policy In An Age Of Politics — John Hewson
|
May 24, 2021 |
|
A Practical Guide To Coping With Uncertainty — John Kay
|
May 17, 2021 |
|
Is Science Reaching Its Limits? — John Horgan
|
May 10, 2021 |
|
Marvellous Melbourne And Australia's Darkest Depression — Graeme Davison
|
May 04, 2021 |
|
A Forgotten Genius — Cheryl Misak
|
Apr 28, 2021 |
|
Progress And Planet — Malcolm Turnbull
|
Apr 12, 2021 |
|
The Craft Of Comedy And The Art Of A Lasting Partnership — Andy Lee
|
Mar 28, 2021 |
|
The Reign Of Keynes, Part II — Lord Robert Skidelsky
|
Mar 22, 2021 |
|
Recollections Of A Wild Man In The Wings — Noam Chomsky
|
Mar 17, 2021 |
|
There Is Such A Thing As Society — Sir Paul Collier
|
Mar 08, 2021 |
|
The Reign Of Keynes, Part I — Zach Carter
|
Feb 28, 2021 |
|
The Doyen Of Behavioural Genetics On Untangling Nature And Nurture — Robert Plomin
|
Feb 22, 2021 |
|
The Republic Is In Peril — Jack A. Goldstone
|
Feb 16, 2021 |
|
Hard-Earned Lessons From A Maverick Who Made It — Mark Cuban
|
Feb 08, 2021 |
|
The Wisdom Of Frank Wilczek
|
Jan 31, 2021 |
|
The Moral Causes And Consequences Of Economic Growth — Benjamin M. Friedman
|
Jan 24, 2021 |
|
The Indiana Jones Of Anthropology On The Origins Of Western Psychology — Joe Henrich
|
Jan 18, 2021 |
|
Deaths Of Despair And The Future Of Capitalism — Angus Deaton
|
Jan 11, 2021 |
|
On Ayn Rand, Cooperation, And Successful Societies - David Sloan Wilson
|
Dec 31, 2020 |
|
What I Learned In 2020 - John Hempton
|
Dec 21, 2020 |
|
Rational Minds Part 5: Heuristics Make Us Smart - Gerd Gigerenzer
|
Dec 21, 2020 |
|
Rational Minds Part 4: The Blind Leading The Blind - David Hirshleifer
|
Dec 20, 2020 |
|
Rational Minds Part 3: Rethinking Bubbles - Vernon Smith
|
Dec 19, 2020 |
|
Rational Minds Part 2: The Myth Of Tulip Mania - Anne Goldgar
|
Dec 17, 2020 |
|
Rational Minds Part 1: A Nation Of Gamblers - Ed Glaeser
|
Dec 15, 2020 |
|
The Roaring Twenties And The Birth Of Consumer Credit - Martha Olney
|
Dec 07, 2020 |
|
Despair And Indignation Among The American White Working Class - Arlie Hochschild
|
Nov 23, 2020 |
|
Back To The Future - Tyler Cowen
|
Nov 04, 2020 |
|
A Labor Intellectual's Plan To Rebraid Our Frayed Social Fabric - Andrew Leigh
|
Oct 19, 2020 |
|
Frauds And Visionaries - Bethany McLean
|
Oct 12, 2020 |
|
The Rise And Fall Of Monetary Policy - Ian Macfarlane
|
Oct 04, 2020 |
|
An Ode To The Uncorrelated Thinker - Eric Weinstein
|
Sep 28, 2020 |
|
Housing Bubble Week Epilogue: Not All Bubbles Are Created Equal - Vernon Smith
|
Sep 27, 2020 |
|
The Meaning Of Human Existence, And The Search For Alien Life - Avi Loeb
|
Sep 23, 2020 |
|
Of Viruses And Vaccines - Peter Doherty
|
Sep 20, 2020 |
|
The Housing Supply Myth - Cameron Murray & Ian Mulheirn
|
Aug 13, 2020 |
|
Inside Humanity's Infinite Improbability Drive - Matt Ridley
|
Aug 10, 2020 |
|
Radical Uncertainty - Mervyn King
|
Aug 08, 2020 |
|
The Doyen Of Economics Podcasting On Death, Lockdown, And The Art Of Socratic Dialogue - Russ Roberts
|
Jul 22, 2020 |
|
The Life and Times of a Thoroughly liberal Prime Minister - Malcolm Turnbull
|
Apr 24, 2020 |
|
How To Put The Economy Into A Coma - Chris Edmond & Steve Hamilton
|
Apr 01, 2020 |
|
The Price Of Uncertainty - Chris Joye
|
Mar 26, 2020 |
|
How An Italian Town Conquered Coronavirus - Andrea Crisanti
|
Mar 25, 2020 |
|
A (New) Darwinian Left - Peter Singer (Live in Melbourne)
|
Mar 18, 2020 |
|
In The Foothills Of A Pandemic - Yaneer Bar-Yam
|
Mar 09, 2020 |
|
Coronavirus, Covert Influence, And Cold War II - Kevin Rudd
|
Feb 20, 2020 |
|
The Evolution Of A Renegade - David Sloan Wilson
|
Feb 17, 2020 |
|
The Intellectual Wild South - Eric Weinstein
|
Jan 30, 2020 |
|
The Silent Hero Of The Australian Economy - Ian Macfarlane
|
Jan 15, 2020 |
|
The Modern Empiricist Proving Old Wisdom On Household Debt And Recession - Amir Sufi
|
Dec 19, 2019 |
|
How To Build A Future More Like Star Trek Than Terminator - Andrew Leigh
|
Nov 18, 2019 |
|
The Untold Tale Of How One Ruthless Company Subjugated A Subcontinent - William Dalrymple
|
Nov 04, 2019 |
|
On Radical Uncertainty, "Phantastic Objects", And Blowing Bubbles - David Tuckett
|
Oct 16, 2019 |
|
Lifting The Veil On Sydney's Crime And Skulduggery - Kate McClymont
|
Sep 30, 2019 |
|
Markets And The Madness Of Crowds - Robert Shiller
|
Sep 07, 2019 |
|
The Dogged Journalist Who (May Have) Pricked A Property Bubble - Adele Ferguson
|
Aug 09, 2019 |
|
The World According To A Maverick, Beach-Biding Stock Picker - John Hempton
|
Jul 08, 2019 |
|
Xi Loves Us, Xi Loves Us Not? - Kevin Rudd
|
Jun 14, 2019 |
|
Housing Bubble Week Finale: It's The Housing Cycle, Stupid! - Ed Leamer
|
May 23, 2019 |
|
Housing Bubble Week: Getting Things Done In Western Sydney - John Hempton
|
May 20, 2019 |
|
Housing Bubble Week: A Philosophy Of Bubbles - Timo Henckel
|
May 19, 2019 |
|
Housing Bubble Week: Speculation And Unchartered Waters - Chris Joye
|
May 16, 2019 |
|
Housing Bubble Week: Housing Bubbles As Availability Cascades - Timur Kuran
|
May 15, 2019 |
|
Housing Bubble Week: Lessons From Amsterdam's 'Gentlemen's Canal' - Piet Eichholtz
|
May 14, 2019 |
|
Housing Bubble Week: Can We Predict Housing Bubbles? - Dean Baker
|
May 13, 2019 |
|
'Housing Bubble Week' & Joe's Speech To Mensa
|
May 12, 2019 |
|
Doing Good Better - Will MacAskill
|
Apr 30, 2019 |
|
The Evolution Of Bret Weinstein
|
Apr 02, 2019 |
|
The Three Big Lies Poisoning Young Minds - Jonathan Haidt
|
Dec 13, 2018 |
|
On Recessions - Andrew Charlton
|
Dec 06, 2018 |
|
Elephants In The Room - Jonathan Tepper
|
Dec 03, 2018 |
|
When The Sky Fell In - Kevin Rudd
|
Oct 25, 2018 |
|
The Man Who Defied Europe - Yanis Varoufakis
|
Jul 26, 2018 |
|
Where Venture Capital Meets Social Purpose - May Samali
|
Jun 14, 2018 |
|
A Short Story Of Everything - David Christian
|
Jun 07, 2018 |
|
The Art/Science Of A High Impact Career - Rob Wiblin
|
Jun 02, 2018 |
|
The Brave Cookie Monster - Brendan Eich
|
May 29, 2018 |
|
The Legendary, Fraud-Sniffing Short Seller - Marc Cohodes
|
May 24, 2018 |
|
My Friend Richard, And Theories Of The Universe - Leonard Susskind
|
May 17, 2018 |
|
The Shape Of Probability - Harry Crane
|
May 14, 2018 |
|
How Peter Thiel Destroyed Gawker - Ryan Holiday
|
May 03, 2018 |