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The Joe Walker Podcast

by Joe Walker

Joe Walker hosts refreshingly in-depth conversations with founders, scientists, scholars, economists, and public intellectuals.

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2025 Retrospective — A Listener (Zac Gross) Interviews Me
Dec 31, 2025
4729
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How Government in Australia Really Works — Glyn Davis & Terry Moran
Dec 22, 2025
9124
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Why Great Powers Sleepwalk to War — A Masterclass with Prof. Hugh White
Nov 25, 2025
16292
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Australia's last great act of economic courage — Peter Costello
Nov 2, 2025
5914
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The Discovery of The Bacterium Behind 5% of All Cancers — Barry Marshall
Aug 26, 2025
8484
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Australia’s ‘Great Stagnation’: Everything You Need to Know About The Productivity Crisis — Greg Kaplan & Michael Brennan
Aug 14, 2025
10667
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Francis Fukuyama — AGI and the Recommencement of History
Jul 31, 2025
4691
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Laura Deming — On Pausing Biological Time & Preserving the Continuous Self
May 20, 2025
4622
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Eight Things I Learned From My Aussie Policy Series
May 11, 2025
2889
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Ken Henry — What Killed the Reform Era? [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]
May 1, 2025
8306
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Sam Roggeveen — Why the US Won't Fight China for Dominance (and What it Means for Australia) [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]
Apr 2, 2025
6871
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Peter Tulip — What Will It Actually Take to Solve the Housing Crisis? [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]
Mar 25, 2025
6301
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Judith Brett — How a Benthamite Political Culture Shaped Australia's Electoral System [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]
Mar 14, 2025
5155
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Richard Holden & Steven Hamilton — How Australia Gets It Done [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]
Mar 4, 2025
7060
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Andrew Leigh — Inequality and Egalitarianism [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]
Feb 14, 2025
5363
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Abul Rizvi — Inside Immigration Policy [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]
Jan 31, 2025
6125
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Behind the Scenes of My Interview Research Process — Andy Matuschak Crashes My Crib
Jan 25, 2025
6171
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Eugene Fama — For Whom Is The Market Efficient?
Dec 31, 2024
3318
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Richard Butler — Nuclear Diplomacy at the End of History
Nov 29, 2024
9093
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Larry Summers — AGI and the Next Industrial Revolution
Oct 21, 2024
2932
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Nassim Taleb — Meditations on Extremistan
Sep 19, 2024
7505
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Robert Boyd & Peter Richerson — How Ice Age Climate Chaos Made Humans Cultural Animals
Aug 13, 2024
8639
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Lucy Turnbull — Urbanism, YIMBYism, and Solutions to Australia's Housing Crisis (Bonus Live Episode)
May 30, 2024
2803
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Bryan Caplan — The Economics of Housing Abundance
May 13, 2024
6614
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2023 Retrospective — A Listener Interviews Me
Dec 29, 2023
6468
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David Deutsch & Steven Pinker (First Ever Public Dialogue) — AGI, P(Doom), & The Enemies of Progress
Dec 19, 2023
6940
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Shruti Rajagopalan — On Spotting Talent, And Making Sense of Rising India
Nov 28, 2023
9900
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Raghuram Rajan — Debt, Monetary Policy, and Unintended Consequences
Nov 1, 2023
6710
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Peter Singer — Moral Truths and Moral Secrets
Sep 19, 2023
6879
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Peter Turchin — Why Societies Fall Apart (And Why the US May Be Next)
Aug 30, 2023
6105
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Stephen Wolfram — Constructing the Computational Paradigm
Aug 16, 2023
15846
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Katalin Karikó — Forging the mRNA Revolution
Aug 1, 2023
7430
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Richard Rhodes — The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Jul 25, 2023
13340
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Ken Henry — An Economic Odyssey
May 9, 2023
16509
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Palmer Luckey — Science (Non)fiction
Apr 25, 2023
5959
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Daniel Kahneman — Dyads, And Other Mysteries
Apr 13, 2023
4387
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Talent Is That Which Is Scarce — Tyler Cowen
Dec 31, 2022
2901
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Intellectual Exoskeletons — Andy Matuschak
Dec 23, 2022
7734
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Rationality And Its Opposite — Steven Pinker
Dec 14, 2022
3152
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Against Bayesianism — David Deutsch
Apr 24, 2022
5942
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The Lessons Of Afghanistan — William Dalrymple
Sep 5, 2021
3492
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The Race That Stopped The Nation — Richard Holden & Steven Hamilton
Aug 30, 2021
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Ergodicity — Ole Peters
Aug 23, 2021
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The Tyranny Of Merit — Michael Sandel
Jun 22, 2021
3890
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The Spectre Of Havoc — Graham Allison
Jun 14, 2021
3178
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A General Theory Of Catastrophe — Niall Ferguson
Jun 6, 2021
4117
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Policy In An Age Of Politics — John Hewson
May 24, 2021
7807
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A Practical Guide To Coping With Uncertainty — John Kay
May 17, 2021
2104
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Is Science Reaching Its Limits? — John Horgan
May 10, 2021
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Marvellous Melbourne And Australia's Darkest Depression — Graeme Davison
May 4, 2021
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