Ep. 1226: Michael Muthukrishna Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Michael Muthukrishna, an Associate Professor of Economic Psychology at the London School of Economics. He is also Affiliate of the Developmental Economics Group at STICERD, Affiliate of the LSE Data Science Institute, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar in the Boundaries, Membership and Belonging programme at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and Technical Director of The Database of Religious History. He is also a board member of the One Pencil Project. He is particularly interested in the application of research in cultural evolution to public policy.

The topic is his book A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Dual inheritance theory, genetic inheritance, and cultural inheritance
Inequality, education, and the impact of culture on socioeconomic outcomes
Different cultures, human adaptation and behavior
Productivity differences between Americans and Europeans
Historical perceptions of civilizations and barbarians
Rise of Eurasia
Border stability and its impact on cultural evolution
Diversity and trust in society

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0:00.0	This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.5	My guest today is Michael Muthu Krishna.
0:36.5	He is a professor of psychology at the London School of Economics.
0:41.1	Today we discuss his new book, a theory of everyone, the new science of who we are,
0:46.0	how we got here, and where we're going.
0:48.8	Now, you probably already feel out there, well, at least some of you will feel out there,
0:56.0	that a topic like this has to have some controversy. Okay, it probably does. Maybe some of you think there's no controversy.
1:02.3	That's your choice. But if we're going to get into the nitty gritty, a theory of everyone,
1:07.1	how we got here, where we're going, not so easy. Because you see, we're not so
1:13.8	similar. Oh, yes, we're similar. We're Homo sapiens. But we got all kinds of different needs,
1:20.4	desires, wants, intelligences. We're a pretty diverse group. Without any further delay, let's jump right in with my guest today, Michael Buthu Krishna,
1:31.1	and discuss his theory of everyone.
1:42.6	Michael, I don't typically start with such a big question like this, but I think it's smart
1:48.5	with this particular content, this episode with you.
1:52.7	Such an interesting title for your book.
1:56.1	But beyond that, because I don't want my audience to think this is just only book promotion,
2:00.0	it's not.
2:00.4	But it's a great place to start because this is a theory of everyone.
2:04.9	I think for us to really have a nice conversation today, which I'm sure we'll probably have some agreement, maybe there'll be some disagreement.
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