knowledge

Arnold Kling on Knowledge, Power, and Unchecked and Unbalanced

发表于 2010-09-06 decentralization unchecked unbalanced

Arnold Kling of EconLog and author of Unchecked and Unbalanced, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the book and the relationship between knowledge and …

William Byers on the Blind Spot, Science, and Uncertainty

发表于 2011-05-16 byers uncertainty spot

William Byers of Canada's Concordia University and author of The Blind Spot talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the nature of knowledge, science and mat…

Dan Klein on Knowledge and Coordination

发表于 2011-12-19 allegory outcomes coordination

Dan Klein of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in Klein's new book, Knowledge and Coordination. Klein argues that al…

David Weinberger on Too Big to Know

发表于 2012-02-27 weinberger discusses changed

David Weinberger of Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and author of Too Big to Know, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the id…

Jim Manzi on Knowledge, Policy, and Uncontrolled

发表于 2012-06-18 causal uncontrolled manzi

Jim Manzi, author of Uncontrolled, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the reliability of science and the ideas in his book. Manzi argues that unlike sc…

Adam D'Angelo on Knowledge, Experimentation, and Quora

发表于 2016-08-08 aggregation experimentation angelo

Adam D'Angelo, CEO of the question and answer website, Quora, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the history, evolution, and challenges of Quora. Along…

Janet Golden on Babies Made Us Modern

发表于 2018-06-04 imperfect janet babies

Historian and author Janet Golden talks about her book, Babies Made Us Modern, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Golden chronicles the transformation of parentin…

Steven Pinker on Common Knowledge

发表于 2025-09-23 everyone knows pinker

Why are Super Bowl ads so good for launching certain kinds of new products? Why do we all drive on the same side of the road? And why, despite laughing and cryi…

Meritocracy, Exams, and the Knowledge That Matters (with Daisy Christodoulou)

发表于 2026-09-08 alchemy matters knowledge

What does a failed 19th-century Chinese civil exam and one of the deadliest wars in history have to do with how we hire, educate, and test people today? In this…

zero knowledge proof (noun)

发表于 2023-12-06 noun glossary knowledge

A mathematical method by which one party (the prover) can prove to another party (the verifier) that something is true, without revealing any information apart …