S2 E8: Science and Politics with Kyle Myers from Harvard Business School

In this episode, our guest is a young star economist: Kyle Myers from Harvard Business School! We talked about the current clash between the Trump administration and Harvard, NIH, "Elasticity of Science", Covid, and more!Current Host: Ruveyda Gozen (@ruveyda_gozen)Timestamps:00:00 Intro, Trump, and Harvard 06:35 “Elasticity” of Science 20:43 Funding for Science: Is there a better way? 24:53 Covid and Elasticity of Science 28:03 Let’s Switch to More Personal Questions! 30:55 What is Kyle’s Production Function of Research?34:55 If he couldn’t be an economist, what would he be in a parallel universe?36:35 What’s something you believe about research or academia that many others in economics don’t agree with?38:43 “This or That?”40:13 Never Have I Ever!