2025-04-18
43 分钟The Economist.
Okay, we've got a great guest for the inaugural episode of the podcast.
Imagine for a moment you're 19 years old.
You've recently emailed a university professor out of the blue.
Brian Kaplan.
He's a professor of economics at George Mason University and a New York Times bestselling author.
You only wrote to him to tell him how much you liked his recent book.
The Case Against Education.
But he replies.
So you decide to seize the opportunity and invite him to take part in a podcast.
He agrees.
I would say I'm definitely criticized for being too radical.
Most of my colleagues are less radical.
Now, this is your first ever podcast,
and the production quality isn't great, but you catch a bug for it.
So in the following months, you interview other academics whose work fascinates you,
as well as a few companies' CEOs.
At age 21, you get to interrogate a leading light of the booming crypto scene.
A lot of it depends on what I end up choosing.
A few months before he winds up in jail for fraud.