The Joe Walker Podcast

The Joe Walker Podcast

Society

by Joe Walker

Joe Walker hosts refreshingly in-depth conversations with founders, scientists, scholars, economists, and public intellectuals.

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Episodes (127)

2025 Retrospective — A Listener (Zac Gross) Interviews Me

Dec 31, 20251h 18m

Cabinet is Australia's Operating System — Here's How It Works (Glyn Davis & Terry Moran)

Dec 22, 20252h 31m

Why Great Powers Sleepwalk to War — A Masterclass with Prof. Hugh White

Nov 25, 20254h 31m

Australia's last great act of economic courage — Peter Costello

Nov 2, 20251h 38m

The Discovery of The Bacterium Behind 5% of All Cancers — Barry Marshall

Aug 26, 20252h 21m

Australia’s ‘Great Stagnation’: Everything You Need to Know About The Productivity Crisis — Greg Kaplan & Michael Brennan

Aug 14, 20252h 57m

Francis Fukuyama — AGI and the Recommencement of History

Jul 31, 20251h 18m

Laura Deming — On Pausing Biological Time & Preserving the Continuous Self

May 20, 20251h 17m

Eight Things I Learned From My Aussie Policy Series

May 11, 202548m

Ken Henry — What Killed the Reform Era? [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]

May 1, 20252h 18m

Sam Roggeveen — Why the US Won't Fight China for Dominance (and What it Means for Australia) [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]

Apr 2, 20251h 54m

Peter Tulip — What Will It Actually Take to Solve the Housing Crisis? [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]

Mar 25, 20251h 45m

Judith Brett — How a Benthamite Political Culture Shaped Australia's Electoral System [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]

Mar 14, 20251h 25m

Richard Holden & Steven Hamilton — How Australia Gets It Done [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]

Mar 4, 20251h 57m

Andrew Leigh — Inequality and Egalitarianism [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]

Feb 14, 20251h 29m

Abul Rizvi — Inside Immigration Policy [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]

Jan 31, 20251h 42m

Behind the Scenes of My Interview Research Process — Andy Matuschak Crashes My Crib

Jan 25, 20251h 42m

Eugene Fama — For Whom Is The Market Efficient?

Dec 31, 202455m

Richard Butler — Nuclear Diplomacy at the End of History

Nov 29, 20242h 31m

Larry Summers — AGI and the Next Industrial Revolution

Oct 21, 202448m

Nassim Taleb — Meditations on Extremistan

Sep 19, 20242h 5m

Robert Boyd & Peter Richerson — How Ice Age Climate Chaos Made Humans Cultural Animals

Aug 13, 20242h 23m

Lucy Turnbull — Urbanism, YIMBYism, and Solutions to Australia's Housing Crisis (Bonus Live Episode)

May 30, 202446m

Bryan Caplan — The Economics of Housing Abundance

May 13, 20241h 50m

2023 Retrospective — A Listener Interviews Me

Dec 29, 20231h 47m

David Deutsch & Steven Pinker (First Ever Public Dialogue) — AGI, P(Doom), & The Enemies of Progress

Dec 19, 20231h 55m

Shruti Rajagopalan — On Spotting Talent, And Making Sense of Rising India

Nov 28, 20232h 45m

Raghuram Rajan — Debt, Monetary Policy, and Unintended Consequences

Nov 1, 20231h 51m

Peter Singer — Moral Truths and Moral Secrets

Sep 19, 20231h 54m

Peter Turchin — Why Societies Fall Apart (And Why the US May Be Next)

Aug 30, 20231h 41m

Stephen Wolfram — Constructing the Computational Paradigm

Aug 16, 20234h 24m

Katalin Karikó — Forging the mRNA Revolution

Aug 1, 20232h 3m

Richard Rhodes — The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Jul 25, 20233h 42m

Ken Henry — An Economic Odyssey

May 9, 20234h 35m

Palmer Luckey — Science (Non)fiction

Apr 25, 20231h 39m

Daniel Kahneman — Dyads, And Other Mysteries

Apr 13, 20231h 13m

Talent Is That Which Is Scarce — Tyler Cowen

Dec 31, 202248m

Intellectual Exoskeletons — Andy Matuschak

Dec 23, 20222h 8m

Rationality And Its Opposite — Steven Pinker

Dec 14, 202252m

Against Bayesianism — David Deutsch

Apr 24, 20221h 39m

The Lessons Of Afghanistan — William Dalrymple

The Race That Stopped The Nation — Richard Holden & Steven Hamilton

Aug 30, 20211h 55m

Ergodicity — Ole Peters

Aug 23, 20212h 9m

The Tyranny Of Merit — Michael Sandel

Jun 22, 20211h 4m

The Spectre Of Havoc — Graham Allison

Jun 14, 202152m

A General Theory Of Catastrophe — Niall Ferguson

Jun 6, 20211h 8m

Policy In An Age Of Politics — John Hewson

May 24, 20212h 10m

A Practical Guide To Coping With Uncertainty — John Kay

May 17, 202135m

Is Science Reaching Its Limits? — John Horgan

May 10, 20211h 21m

Marvellous Melbourne And Australia's Darkest Depression — Graeme Davison

May 4, 20211h 8m

A Forgotten Genius — Cheryl Misak

Apr 28, 20211h 11m

Progress And Planet — Malcolm Turnbull

Apr 12, 20211h 0m

The Craft Of Comedy And The Art Of A Lasting Partnership — Andy Lee

Mar 28, 20211h 36m

The Reign Of Keynes, Part II — Lord Robert Skidelsky

Mar 22, 20211h 25m

Recollections Of A Wild Man In The Wings — Noam Chomsky

Mar 17, 20211h 2m

There Is Such A Thing As Society — Sir Paul Collier

Mar 8, 20211h 8m

The Reign Of Keynes, Part I — Zach Carter

Feb 28, 20211h 29m

The Doyen Of Behavioural Genetics On Untangling Nature And Nurture — Robert Plomin

Feb 22, 20211h 25m

The Republic Is In Peril — Jack A. Goldstone

Feb 16, 20211h 45m

Hard-Earned Lessons From A Maverick Who Made It — Mark Cuban

Feb 8, 20211h 9m

The Wisdom Of Frank Wilczek

Jan 31, 20211h 49m

The Moral Causes And Consequences Of Economic Growth — Benjamin M. Friedman

Jan 24, 20211h 24m

The Indiana Jones Of Anthropology On The Origins Of Western Psychology — Joe Henrich

Jan 18, 20211h 13m

Deaths Of Despair And The Future Of Capitalism — Angus Deaton

Jan 11, 20211h 25m

On Ayn Rand, Cooperation, And Successful Societies - David Sloan Wilson

Dec 31, 20202h 0m

What I Learned In 2020 - John Hempton

Dec 21, 20201h 46m

Rational Minds Part 5: Heuristics Make Us Smart - Gerd Gigerenzer

Dec 21, 20201h 48m

Rational Minds Part 4: The Blind Leading The Blind - David Hirshleifer

Dec 20, 20201h 6m

Rational Minds Part 3: Rethinking Bubbles - Vernon Smith

Dec 19, 20201h 19m

Rational Minds Part 2: The Myth Of Tulip Mania - Anne Goldgar

Dec 17, 20201h 19m

Rational Minds Part 1: A Nation Of Gamblers - Ed Glaeser

Dec 15, 202032m

The Roaring Twenties And The Birth Of Consumer Credit - Martha Olney

Dec 7, 20201h 3m

Despair And Indignation Among The American White Working Class - Arlie Hochschild

Nov 23, 20201h 11m

Back To The Future - Tyler Cowen

Nov 4, 20201h 28m

A Labor Intellectual's Plan To Rebraid Our Frayed Social Fabric - Andrew Leigh

Oct 19, 202049m

Frauds And Visionaries - Bethany McLean

Oct 12, 20201h 25m

The Rise And Fall Of Monetary Policy - Ian Macfarlane

Oct 4, 20201h 42m

An Ode To The Uncorrelated Thinker - Eric Weinstein

Sep 28, 20202h 19m

Housing Bubble Week Epilogue: Not All Bubbles Are Created Equal - Vernon Smith

Sep 27, 20202h 24m

The Meaning Of Human Existence, And The Search For Alien Life - Avi Loeb

Sep 23, 20202h 7m

Of Viruses And Vaccines - Peter Doherty

Sep 20, 20201h 20m

The Housing Supply Myth - Cameron Murray & Ian Mulheirn

Aug 13, 20201h 41m

Inside Humanity's Infinite Improbability Drive - Matt Ridley

Aug 10, 20201h 44m

Radical Uncertainty - Mervyn King

Aug 8, 20201h 47m

The Doyen Of Economics Podcasting On Death, Lockdown, And The Art Of Socratic Dialogue - Russ Roberts

Jul 22, 20202h 24m

The Life and Times of a Thoroughly liberal Prime Minister - Malcolm Turnbull

Apr 24, 20201h 22m

How To Put The Economy Into A Coma - Chris Edmond & Steve Hamilton

Apr 1, 20201h 31m

The Price Of Uncertainty - Chris Joye

Mar 26, 20202h 10m

How An Italian Town Conquered Coronavirus - Andrea Crisanti

Mar 25, 202033m

A (New) Darwinian Left - Peter Singer (Live in Melbourne)

Mar 18, 20202h 2m

In The Foothills Of A Pandemic - Yaneer Bar-Yam

Mar 9, 20202h 9m

Coronavirus, Covert Influence, And Cold War II - Kevin Rudd

Feb 20, 202040m

The Evolution Of A Renegade - David Sloan Wilson

Feb 17, 20203h 4m

The Intellectual Wild South - Eric Weinstein

Jan 30, 20202h 56m

The Silent Hero Of The Australian Economy - Ian Macfarlane

Jan 15, 20201h 39m

The Modern Empiricist Proving Old Wisdom On Household Debt And Recession - Amir Sufi

Dec 19, 20191h 5m

How To Build A Future More Like Star Trek Than Terminator - Andrew Leigh

Nov 18, 201957m

The Untold Tale Of How One Ruthless Company Subjugated A Subcontinent - William Dalrymple

Nov 4, 20191h 13m

On Radical Uncertainty, "Phantastic Objects", And Blowing Bubbles - David Tuckett

Oct 16, 20192h 20m

Lifting The Veil On Sydney's Crime And Skulduggery - Kate McClymont

Sep 30, 20191h 13m

Markets And The Madness Of Crowds - Robert Shiller

Sep 7, 20192h 18m

The Dogged Journalist Who (May Have) Pricked A Property Bubble - Adele Ferguson

Aug 9, 20191h 1m

The World According To A Maverick, Beach-Biding Stock Picker - John Hempton

Jul 8, 20192h 52m

Xi Loves Us, Xi Loves Us Not? - Kevin Rudd

Jun 14, 20191h 28m

Housing Bubble Week Finale: It's The Housing Cycle, Stupid! - Ed Leamer

May 23, 201952m

Housing Bubble Week: Getting Things Done In Western Sydney - John Hempton

May 20, 201954m

Housing Bubble Week: A Philosophy Of Bubbles - Timo Henckel

May 19, 20191h 11m

Housing Bubble Week: Speculation And Unchartered Waters - Chris Joye

May 16, 20191h 15m

Housing Bubble Week: Housing Bubbles As Availability Cascades - Timur Kuran

May 15, 201944m

Housing Bubble Week: Lessons From Amsterdam's 'Gentlemen's Canal' - Piet Eichholtz

May 14, 20191h 5m

Housing Bubble Week: Can We Predict Housing Bubbles? - Dean Baker

May 13, 201957m

'Housing Bubble Week' & Joe's Speech To Mensa

May 12, 201923m

Doing Good Better - Will MacAskill

Apr 30, 201938m

The Evolution Of Bret Weinstein

Apr 2, 20193h 44m

The Three Big Lies Poisoning Young Minds - Jonathan Haidt

Dec 13, 20181h 3m

On Recessions - Andrew Charlton

Elephants In The Room - Jonathan Tepper

When The Sky Fell In - Kevin Rudd

Oct 25, 201852m

The Man Who Defied Europe - Yanis Varoufakis

Jul 26, 20181h 25m

Where Venture Capital Meets Social Purpose - May Samali

Jun 14, 20181h 16m

A Short Story Of Everything - David Christian

Jun 7, 20181h 29m

The Art/Science Of A High Impact Career - Rob Wiblin

Jun 2, 20181h 33m

The Brave Cookie Monster - Brendan Eich

May 29, 20181h 26m

The Legendary, Fraud-Sniffing Short Seller - Marc Cohodes

May 24, 20183h 2m

My Friend Richard, And Theories Of The Universe - Leonard Susskind

May 17, 20181h 6m

The Shape Of Probability - Harry Crane

May 14, 20181h 42m

How Peter Thiel Destroyed Gawker - Ryan Holiday