Cause and Effect on a Global Scale

Masters in Business

Bloomberg

Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing

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🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Barry Ritholtz speaks to Brian Klaas, associate professor of global politics at University College London and affiliate researcher at the University of Oxford. He is the author of five books, including Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters and Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us. Klaas writes the popular The Garden of Forking Paths Substack and created the award-winning Power Corrupts podcast. He previously was a columnist for the Washington Post and now contributes to the Atlantic.

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0:45.0	This week on the podcast, I have a fascinating guest.
0:50.0	His name is Brian Koss. He teaches at at the University College London where he focuses on global
0:54.9	politics and he has written a book that I have just plowed through the first half of and found
1:01.2	absolutely fascinating. Fluke, chance, chaos, and why everything we do matters.
1:08.4	He just really explains why our understanding of cause and effect is so flawed that we think that A naturally
1:16.8	leads to B which leads to C and instead the world is far more random and complex and little things that happened years ago,
1:26.7	sometimes thousands or millions of years ago, have a giant impact on what happens today. It really turns your view on causation upside down and makes you rethink
1:37.6	Just how random everything is I found the book fascinating and I found our conversation fascinating and I think you will also
1:45.5	With no further ado my conversation with the author of Luke
1:49.6	Brian Koss It's a pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me on the show. So this book is nothing more than just all confirmation bias for me. We'll jump into this in a bit. I'm about halfway through it and really enjoying it, but I have to start out with a
2:07.4	story you tell in the introduction to the book. You're 20 years old, your father
2:12.4	pulls you aside, shows you a newspaper clipping
2:15.7	from 1905 and the headline is terrible act of insane woman.
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