Tech we want but don't deserve

Economist Alvin Roth, winner of the economics Nobel in 2012 for his work on market design, joins Cardiff to discuss his new book, Moral Economics: From Prostitution to Organ Sales: What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work.The book is about morally contested m ...  Show more

Martha Gimbel, executive director of The Budget Lab at Yale, returns to the New Bazaar to chat with Cardiff about all things debt and deficits.Martha argues that the fiscal choices of the past decade have already led to higher costs on mortgages, car loans, and small-business deb ...  Show more

Shira Ovide, author of the On Tech newsletter for The New York Times, talks about the power of technology "empires;" the implications of the recent Microsoft-Activision deal; and what the blurred reality of the "metaverse" might look like. She discusses her recent columns and ana ...  Show more

This week Felix Salmon and Emily Peck are joined by the New York Times’ “On Tech” columnist Shira Ovide for an all-tech deep dive. Starting with the war in Ukraine, they explore the tech giants’ grappling with Russian restrictions, Amazon’s inflated image as the omnipotent retail ...  Show more

In this episode sponsored by Nissan, we take a look at the technologies being developed right now that will reshape the web and how we interact online. From Web3 to the metaverse to, yes, NFTs, we look at what's good, what's bad and what could define our future.See omnystudio.com ...  Show more

From the high speed train wreck that is Twitter 2.0, to the extradition of a fallen crypto kingpin and AI that can rewrite your dating profile, there’s a lot happening in tech right now. Nayeema Raza moderates a conversation with Kara Swisher and Casey Newton, the founder and edi ...  Show more