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Date: November 14, 2010
"What are the consequences of the fact that evolution is a tinkerer and not an inventor, and has duct-taped metaphors and symbols to whichever pre-existing brain areas provided the closest fit?"
preview | full record— Sapolsky, Robert (b. 1957)
Date: December 19, 2010
"But it’s one thing to make deals to advance your goals; it’s another to open the door to zombie ideas."
preview | full record— Krugman, Paul (b. 1953)
Date: 2010
"These ideas are neither alive nor dead; rather as Paul Krugman has said, they are undead, or zombie ideas."
preview | full record— Quiggin, John (b. 1956)
Date: 2010
"The zombie ideas that brought the global financial system to the brink of meltdown, and have already caused thousands of firms to fail and cost millions of workers their jobs, still walk among us."
preview | full record— Quiggin, John (b. 1956)
Date: 2010
"If we do not kill these zombie ideas once and for all, they will do even more damage next time."
preview | full record— Quiggin, John (b. 1956)
Date: 2010
"A zombie idea is one that keeps coming back, despite being killed."
preview | full record— Quiggin, John (b. 1956)
Date: 2010
"But zombie ideas are not so easily killed."
preview | full record— Quiggin, John (b. 1956)
Date: 2010
"I underestimated the speed and power of Zombie ideas."
preview | full record— Quiggin, John (b. 1956)
Date: 2010
"Still, given the overwhelming evidence that social mobility in the United States is low by standards of developed countries and decreasing steadily, the task of reanimating this zombie idea looks like a difficult one."
preview | full record— Quiggin, John (b. 1956)
