BONUS: Yuval Harari - Unedited Conversation

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Civic Ventures

Business, Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

When we talked with historian Yuval Harari, the best-selling author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, the conversation was so wide-ranging and so smart that we just couldn't bear to leave any of it behind on the cutting room floor. So here's the full, unedited interview on a range of topics including why our society has fallen so hard for the myth of trickle-down economics.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Annie Fadley. Welcome to more Pitch Fork Economics bonus content.
0:09.2	Zach, can you give it the people what they want?
0:11.6	Hey, Zach, here.
0:13.0	So one of the best parts of making this podcast
0:15.6	is that we get to talk to some of the world's most
0:17.3	influential thinkers.
0:18.9	And the nature of those kind of conversations
0:21.0	is that we have to take a really big interview and boil it down into a tidy little episode.
0:25.0	And so some of the best parts of the conversation miss the cut.
0:29.0	So occasionally we're going to release those full conversations and we want to do it as bonus
0:33.9	content and that's what we're doing here today. I know for me one of my favorite
0:37.9	conversations we've had was with Professor Yval Harare. He's easily one of the
0:42.4	most influential thinkers on our work at Civic Ventures. And in fact,
0:46.6	his book Sapiens is literally required reading for our staff and it is the rare book that makes it into every one of our staff members
0:54.8	top fives.
0:56.4	So we really appreciate his conversation with us, and we hope you'll enjoy it as much as we did.
1:08.0	Dr Hurry, how are you? I'm fine, thank you.
1:10.0	You have been very busy.
1:12.0	Yeah, too busy.
1:14.0	No, it's just been it's been astounding to watch the evolution of your work and your ideas.
1:24.4	So congratulations.
1:26.3	Super fun to watch and consume.
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