Archives for: "May 2010"
psychiatry on econtalk
May 31st, 2010on the limits of the science surrounding psychiatry, made more interesting to me by having had some indirect but close encounters with practitioners.
Psychiatry (5/31/2010) - Louis Menand of Harvard University talks about the state of psychiatry. Draw… more »
the crisis, summary, on econtalk
May 17th, 2010This 'cast condenses into 90 minutes the prior 18 months or so of observation, analysis, and theorizing about the financial crisis. Roberts' strengths include being able to develop coherent narratives that relate well-known observations of human behavi… more »
black swans on econtalk
May 3rd, 2010Taleb makes the point that debt makes us fragile - the more the worse. I don't think our political leaders recognize this problem. Taleb was also recently interviewed on Planet Money.
Black Swans, Fragility, and Mistakes (5/3/2010) - Nassim Taleb, au… more »
