Philip Auerswald's guest appearances

Philip Auerswald

EconTalk

Curious Minds at Work

EconTalk at the Hoover Institution

Big Audacious Idea

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Michele Gelfand

David Epstein

Emiliana Simon-Thomas

Seth Godin

Alvin Roth

Paul Tough

Kevin Kelly

Matthew Crawford

Cesar Hidalgo

David Smith

Chris Guillebeau

Alison Wolf

Erica Sandberg

Yuval Levin

Jason Zweig

OwlTail

What truly is code? How can the definition of code be better associated with the progression of humankind? Can this adapted understanding influence our relationship with progress?In this episode, Host Craig James is joined by economist and author of “The Code Economy” Philip Auerswald. Together, they discuss the purpose of code, the importance of scaling outwards, and even the significance of the chocolate chip cookie.Philip Auerswald is chief academic officer of the Hult Prize Foundation. He is also the founding board chair and president of the National Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the founder of Innovations journal (MIT Press), and a professor of public policy at George Mason University. Auerswald has published over fifty books, peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and professional reports on entrepreneurship, innovation, and public policy. He is among the leading authorities globally on policies to enable entrepreneurial ecosystems.Learn more about Philip by following these links:Oxford University Press: The Code Economy: A Forty-Thousand-Year History  Harvard Business Review: "The Ups and Downs of India’s Digital Transformation"TEDx: Eye Contact Can't be Automated ﻿Harvard Business Review: "A Decade In, It’s Time to Supercharge the Giving Pledge"New York Times: "As Population Growth Slows, Populism Surges” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What truly is code? How can the definition of code be better associated with the progression of humankind? Can this adapted understanding influence our relationship with progress?In this episode, Host Craig James is joined by economist and author of “<a href="http://auerswald.org/2016/12/30/the-code-economy-a-forty-thousand-year-history/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Code Economy</a>” Philip Auerswald. Together, they discuss the purpose of code, the importance of scaling outwards, and even the significance of the chocolate chip cookie.Philip Auerswald is chief academic officer of the Hult Prize Foundation. He is also the founding board chair and president of the National Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the founder of Innovations journal (MIT Press), and a professor of public policy at George Mason University. Auerswald has published over fifty books, peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and professional reports on entrepreneurship, innovation, and public policy. He is among the leading authorities globally on policies to enable entrepreneurial ecosystems.Learn more about Philip by following these links:<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Code-Economy-Forty-Thousand-Year-History/dp/0190226765/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1479067418" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Oxford University Press: The Code Economy: A Forty-Thousand-Year History</a> <a href="https://hbr.org/2019/05/the-ups-and-downs-of-indias-digital-transformation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Harvard Business Review: "The Ups and Downs of India’s Digital Transformation"</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S61jrs173aQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TEDx: Eye Contact Can't be Automated</a> ﻿<a href="https://hbr.org/2020/08/a-decade-in-its-time-to-supercharge-the-giving-pledge" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Harvard Business Review: "A Decade In, It’s Time to Supercharge the Giving Pledge"</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/opinion/populist-populism-fertility-rates.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New York Times: "As Population Growth Slows, Populism Surges”</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Humanity, Economy and Code with Philip Auerswald

Author and professor Philip Auerswald of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the rise of populism in the United States and throughout the world. Auerswald argues that the rise of cities and the productivity of urban life has created a divergence in experience and rewards between urban and rural areas around the world. Auerswald ties these changes to changes in voting patterns and speculates about the sources of the increasing productivity of metropolitan areas.

Author and professor Philip Auerswald of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the rise of populism in the United States and throughout the world. Auerswald argues that the rise of cities and the productivity of urban life has created a divergence in experience and rewards between urban and rural areas around the world. Auerswald ties these changes to changes in voting patterns and speculates about the sources of the increasing productivity of metropolitan areas.

Philip Auerswald on the Rise of Populism

Could our code be making us more human?When most of us hear the word code, we think of computer code -- the digital instructions that drive our devices. But when Philip Auerswald hears the word code, he sees the instructions that drive the human race.Phil is the author of the book, The Code Economy: A Forty-thousand Year History. He is an Associate Professor at the School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, a Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, and Executive Director of the Global Entrepreneurship Research Network. He is also the co-founder of Innovations, a journal on entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges. Phil believes that as machines and algorithms play ever bigger roles in our lives, we will actually become more human. This long view of automation--a 40,000-year view--also gives us insight into a different, more innovative perspective on how to think about the future of work.In this interview we discuss: 	A broader definition of code as the DNA of human society from the simple to the complex 	The importance of getting beyond singularity vs dystopian views of humans vs machines 	How humans will redefine their own value -- as they have done repeatedly -- as robots, machines and algorithms play a bigger role in our world 	The fact our ability to learn -- to experiment and share what we learn -- is what sets us apart 	How human beings are constantly exploring spaces of possibility 	How evolving understanding, knowledge, and knowhow results from finding the adjacent possible  	The fact that cities are actual platforms in that they stand on problems solved in literal ways -- sewage and electric power and subway transport 	How platforms of today are increasingly digital 	The concepts of bifurcation and substitution where a product is split over time into cheap and high volume vs expensive and low volume, as in watches and clocks 	How high volume and low cost items typically lend themselves to automation 	The fact that we are trying to recapture a 1960s way of living and working that is no longer viable 	How we need to rewire rather than retire 	The concept of a job has only been around for about 150 years due to the introduction and growth of large-scale institutions that needed people serve in a role and act on specific routines 	Why subsidizing higher education and retirement are not the right ways to think about the problem of machines, robots, and automation 	Why the evolutionary nature of ideas and actions opens us up to abundance and new opportunities  	How it is almost irrational to think our creative processes will come to an end 	How the inequality that exists within cities and between cities and rural parts of the U.S. are the driver of political discordLinks to Topics Mentioned in this Podcast@auerswaldhttp://auerswald.org/Stuart KauffmanRise of the Robots by Martin FordShinolaNexus by Ramez NaamMilton FriedmanPermanent income hypothesisOtto von BismarckLarry Harvey and Burning ManThe Absence of Design in NatureScale by Geoffrey WestJose LoboProgress and Poverty by Henry GeorgeThe Origin of Populist Surges Everywhere by Philip AuerswaldIf you enjoy the podcast, please rate and review it on iTunes - your ratings make all the difference. For automatic delivery of new episodes, be sure to subscribe. As always, thanks for listening!

Could our code be making us more human? When most of us hear the word code, we think of computer code -- the digital instructions that drive our devices. But when Philip Auerswald hears the word code, he sees the instructions that drive the human race. Phil is the author of the book, The Code Economy: A Forty-thousand Year History. He is an Associate Professor at the School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, a Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, and Executive Director of the Global Entrepreneurship Research Network. He is also the co-founder of Innovations, a journal on entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges. Phil believes that as machines and algorithms play ever bigger roles in our lives, we will actually become more human. This long view of automation--a 40,000-year view--also gives us insight into a different, more innovative perspective on how to think about the future of work. In this interview we discuss: 	A broader definition of code as the DNA of human society from the simple to the complex 	The importance of getting beyond singularity vs dystopian views of humans vs machines 	How humans will redefine their own value -- as they have done repeatedly -- as robots, machines and algorithms play a bigger role in our world 	The fact our ability to learn -- to experiment and share what we learn -- is what sets us apart 	How human beings are constantly exploring spaces of possibility 	How evolving understanding, knowledge, and knowhow results from finding the adjacent possible 	The fact that cities are actual platforms in that they stand on problems solved in literal ways -- sewage and electric power and subway transport 	How platforms of today are increasingly digital 	The concepts of bifurcation and substitution where a product is split over time into cheap and high volume vs expensive and low volume, as in watches and clocks 	How high volume and low cost items typically lend themselves to automation 	The fact that we are trying to recapture a 1960s way of living and working that is no longer viable 	How we need to rewire rather than retire 	The concept of a job has only been around for about 150 years due to the introduction and growth of large-scale institutions that needed people serve in a role and act on specific routines 	Why subsidizing higher education and retirement are not the right ways to think about the problem of machines, robots, and automation 	Why the evolutionary nature of ideas and actions opens us up to abundance and new opportunities 	How it is almost irrational to think our creative processes will come to an end 	How the inequality that exists within cities and between cities and rural parts of the U.S. are the driver of political discord Links to Topics Mentioned in this Podcast @auerswald <a href="http://auerswald.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://auerswald.org/</a> Stuart Kauffman Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford Shinola Nexus by Ramez Naam Milton Friedman Permanent income hypothesis Otto von Bismarck Larry Harvey and Burning Man The Absence of Design in Nature Scale by Geoffrey West Jose Lobo Progress and Poverty by Henry George The Origin of Populist Surges Everywhere by Philip Auerswald If you enjoy the podcast, please rate and review it on iTunes - your ratings make all the difference. For automatic delivery of new episodes, be sure to subscribe. As always, thanks for listening!

CM 085: Philip Auerswald on the Human Side of Code