Psychologist Daniel Kahneman explains the "Focusing Illusion" theory, a common human tendency to exaggerate the importance of a single, outstanding aspect to a larger idea or event.

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Added: Tue Jan 10 01:27:13 UTC 2012
Air date: Tue Jan 10 00:00:00 UTC 2012
Duration: 02:21

What happens when homegrown Chinese brands can't compete with demand for Western products? Meet the copy cat "Shanzhai." "DIKE" shoes, anyone? Fake Apple Stores? How about "Obama Fried Chicken"?

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Added: Tue Dec 06 00:30:14 UTC 2011
Air date: Mon Dec 05 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 03:38

Can a math equation predict your wages? What about the crime rate in your neighborhood? Physicist Geoffrey West discusses his work on developing a model to formulate predictions about a city based solely on its size.

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Added: Sat Sep 24 01:34:10 UTC 2011
Air date: Sat Sep 24 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 06:05

Physicist Geoffrey West discusses the implications of a society that defines success as perpetual exponential growth. Is a collapse inevitable?

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Added: Sat Sep 24 01:34:10 UTC 2011
Air date: Sat Sep 24 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 05:56

Physicist Geoffrey West offers his views on the state of scientific thinking in government. "The people making decisions rarely talk to scientists," says West. "They do talk to economists, which may be the problem."

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Added: Sat Sep 24 01:34:10 UTC 2011
Air date: Sat Sep 24 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 04:00

Shelley Leibowitz, chief information officer of the World Bank Group, explains that while the World Bank has historically been viewed as an exclusive, opaque organization, they are continuously working to be more open and cooperative.

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Added: Wed Aug 17 06:34:11 UTC 2011
Air date: Wed Aug 17 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 03:34

Don Tapscott, author of Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World, argues that the hierarchical institutions of the industrial age are over, and that new models of participatory communication will usher in greater transparency and collaboration.

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Added: Wed Jun 22 04:39:08 UTC 2011
Air date: Wed Jun 22 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 02:29

Charles Ferguson, director of the Academy Award-winning documentary "Inside Job," proposes a strategy to reform the compensation structure of top players in the financial services industry.

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Added: Mon Jun 20 01:17:08 UTC 2011
Air date: Sat Jun 18 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 04:29

"Inside Job" director Charles Ferguson names a few of the known crimes investment banks were involved in that contributed to the economic collapse all of which remain unprosecuted.

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Added: Mon Jun 20 01:17:08 UTC 2011
Air date: Sat Jun 18 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 02:37

Patri Friedman, executive director of the Seasteading Institute, lays out his idea to re-imagine government by building tiny start-up countries at sea. "What we need," explains Friedman, "is a new physical frontier, a blank canvas for experiments."

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Added: Tue Jun 07 14:29:10 UTC 2011
Air date: Wed Jun 08 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 02:15

Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich gives his take on how government policy can foster markets that encourage innovation in education, healthcare, and the environment.

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Added: Tue Jun 07 14:29:10 UTC 2011
Air date: Mon Jun 06 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 02:19

Adam Davidson, co-host of NPR's Planet Money, describes the surprising resilience of the cotton industry despite the economic downturn. Could this traditional crop represent the future of American innovation?

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Added: Tue Jun 07 14:29:10 UTC 2011
Duration: 06:10

Matt Ridley, journalist and author of The Rational Optimist, examines the driving forces behind human evolution and technological innovation, especially over the past 100,000 years. Ridley argues the answer lies in the development of exchange, or trade.

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Added: Tue May 03 07:23:08 UTC 2011
Air date: Tue May 03 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 06:09

Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist, looks at past rates of food production to explain why it should eventually be possible to produce enough food to feed a global population of 9 billion people.

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Added: Tue May 03 07:01:09 UTC 2011
Air date: Tue May 03 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 03:12

Paul Krugman, economist and New York Times op-ed columnist, cites a number of cultural reasons as to why Wall Street experienced relatively little political fallout in the wake of the economic crisis.

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Added: Fri Apr 22 02:59:12 UTC 2011
Air date: Wed Apr 20 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 02:54

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman warns that the current economic crisis holds a lifetime of implications for young Americans. "Kids who are graduating into the 2011 job market are never going to have the lives they should have had," he says.

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Added: Fri Apr 22 02:59:12 UTC 2011
Air date: Wed Apr 20 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 03:10

Economist Dambisa Moyo examines the notion that the United States should deal with its escalating debt by simply refusing to pay it off. Although Moyo regards default as an option of last resort, she notes that it wouldn't be one without precedent.

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Added: Sun Mar 06 22:32:11 UTC 2011
Air date: Fri Mar 04 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 03:01

As voters continue to demand short-term solutions to long-term problem of government debt (and as politicians continue to oblige them), international economist Dambisa Moyo ponders the question: is democracy itself part of the problem?

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Added: Sun Mar 06 22:51:11 UTC 2011
Air date: Fri Mar 04 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 03:25

Historian Niall Ferguson compares the U.S. economy to complex systems in nature. America's financial system may appear stable from the outside, says Ferguson, but may actually be "quite close to the edge of chaos."

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Added: Sat Feb 05 11:25:11 UTC 2011
Air date: Sat Feb 05 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 02:27

Historian Niall Ferguson fears a post-American world would bear close resemblance to the Dark Ages that followed the decline of the Roman Empire. "A world without a strong America is a dangerous world."

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Added: Sat Feb 05 11:25:11 UTC 2011
Air date: Sat Feb 05 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 02:49