PODCAST: Finding answer-finding systems

Skeptics are the essential life-blood of the answer-finding system, and the terrible movie review system.

What should we do to end world poverty? Not only do we not know, says Bill Easterly, but that’s also the entirely wrong question to ask. Professor Easterly discusses answer-finding systems, professional skepticism and M. Night Shymalan’s alternate career as an aid worker in a panel discussion at the Columbia Tikvah-Hertog Summer Institute.

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PODCAST: Prof. Easterly speaks about development and individual freedoms at the Columbia Tikvah-Hertog Summer Institute. What should we do to end world poverty? Not only do we not know, but that's the wrong question to ask.