All Episodes
The Joe Walker Podcast — 132 episodes
"Just because I consulted doesn't mean I didn't dominate": How prime ministers really govern — Patrick Weller
How Can Australia Get a Piece of the AI Action? — Danielle Wood
How Australia Actually Selects and Integrates Migrants — Mike Pezzullo [Immigration Series]
"Bigger and Different": The Six Decades That Remade Australia — Mark Cully [Immigration Series]
"We've built an economy that requires 2 million temporary migrants" — Martin Parkinson [Immigration Series]
2025 Retrospective — A Listener (Zac Gross) Interviews Me
Cabinet is Australia's Operating System — Here's How It Works (Glyn Davis & Terry Moran)
Why Great Powers Sleepwalk to War — A Masterclass with Prof. Hugh White
Australia's last great act of economic courage — Peter Costello
The Discovery of The Bacterium Behind 5% of All Cancers — Barry Marshall
Australia’s ‘Great Stagnation’: Everything You Need to Know About The Productivity Crisis — Greg Kaplan & Michael Brennan
Francis Fukuyama — AGI and the Recommencement of History
Laura Deming — On Pausing Biological Time & Preserving the Continuous Self
Eight Things I Learned From My Aussie Policy Series
Ken Henry — What Killed the Reform Era? [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]
Sam Roggeveen — Why the US Won't Fight China for Dominance (and What it Means for Australia) [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]
Peter Tulip — What Will It Actually Take to Solve the Housing Crisis? [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]
Judith Brett — How a Benthamite Political Culture Shaped Australia's Electoral System [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]
Richard Holden & Steven Hamilton — How Australia Gets It Done [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]
Andrew Leigh — Inequality and Egalitarianism [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]
Abul Rizvi — Inside Immigration Policy [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]
Behind the Scenes of My Interview Research Process — Andy Matuschak Crashes My Crib
Eugene Fama — For Whom Is The Market Efficient?
Richard Butler — Nuclear Diplomacy at the End of History
Larry Summers — AGI and the Next Industrial Revolution
Nassim Taleb — Meditations on Extremistan
Robert Boyd & Peter Richerson — How Ice Age Climate Chaos Made Humans Cultural Animals
Lucy Turnbull — Urbanism, YIMBYism, and Solutions to Australia's Housing Crisis (Bonus Live Episode)
Bryan Caplan — The Economics of Housing Abundance
2023 Retrospective — A Listener Interviews Me
David Deutsch & Steven Pinker (First Ever Public Dialogue) — AGI, P(Doom), & The Enemies of Progress
Shruti Rajagopalan — On Spotting Talent, And Making Sense of Rising India
Raghuram Rajan — Debt, Monetary Policy, and Unintended Consequences
Peter Singer — Moral Truths and Moral Secrets
Peter Turchin — Why Societies Fall Apart (And Why the US May Be Next)
Stephen Wolfram — Constructing the Computational Paradigm
Katalin Karikó — Forging the mRNA Revolution
Richard Rhodes — The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Ken Henry — An Economic Odyssey
Palmer Luckey — Science (Non)fiction
Daniel Kahneman — Dyads, And Other Mysteries
Talent Is That Which Is Scarce — Tyler Cowen
Intellectual Exoskeletons — Andy Matuschak
Rationality And Its Opposite — Steven Pinker
Against Bayesianism — David Deutsch
The Lessons Of Afghanistan — William Dalrymple
The Race That Stopped The Nation — Richard Holden & Steven Hamilton
Ergodicity — Ole Peters
The Tyranny Of Merit — Michael Sandel
The Spectre Of Havoc — Graham Allison
A General Theory Of Catastrophe — Niall Ferguson
Policy In An Age Of Politics — John Hewson
A Practical Guide To Coping With Uncertainty — John Kay
Is Science Reaching Its Limits? — John Horgan
Marvellous Melbourne And Australia's Darkest Depression — Graeme Davison
A Forgotten Genius — Cheryl Misak
Progress And Planet — Malcolm Turnbull
The Craft Of Comedy And The Art Of A Lasting Partnership — Andy Lee
The Reign Of Keynes, Part II — Lord Robert Skidelsky
Recollections Of A Wild Man In The Wings — Noam Chomsky
There Is Such A Thing As Society — Sir Paul Collier
The Reign Of Keynes, Part I — Zach Carter
The Doyen Of Behavioural Genetics On Untangling Nature And Nurture — Robert Plomin
The Republic Is In Peril — Jack A. Goldstone
Hard-Earned Lessons From A Maverick Who Made It — Mark Cuban
The Wisdom Of Frank Wilczek
The Moral Causes And Consequences Of Economic Growth — Benjamin M. Friedman
The Indiana Jones Of Anthropology On The Origins Of Western Psychology — Joe Henrich
Deaths Of Despair And The Future Of Capitalism — Angus Deaton
On Ayn Rand, Cooperation, And Successful Societies - David Sloan Wilson
What I Learned In 2020 - John Hempton
Rational Minds Part 5: Heuristics Make Us Smart - Gerd Gigerenzer
Rational Minds Part 4: The Blind Leading The Blind - David Hirshleifer
Rational Minds Part 3: Rethinking Bubbles - Vernon Smith
Rational Minds Part 2: The Myth Of Tulip Mania - Anne Goldgar
Rational Minds Part 1: A Nation Of Gamblers - Ed Glaeser
The Roaring Twenties And The Birth Of Consumer Credit - Martha Olney
Despair And Indignation Among The American White Working Class - Arlie Hochschild
Back To The Future - Tyler Cowen
A Labor Intellectual's Plan To Rebraid Our Frayed Social Fabric - Andrew Leigh
Frauds And Visionaries - Bethany McLean
The Rise And Fall Of Monetary Policy - Ian Macfarlane
An Ode To The Uncorrelated Thinker - Eric Weinstein
EHousing Bubble Week Epilogue: Not All Bubbles Are Created Equal - Vernon Smith
The Meaning Of Human Existence, And The Search For Alien Life - Avi Loeb
Of Viruses And Vaccines - Peter Doherty
The Housing Supply Myth - Cameron Murray & Ian Mulheirn
Inside Humanity's Infinite Improbability Drive - Matt Ridley
Radical Uncertainty - Mervyn King
The Doyen Of Economics Podcasting On Death, Lockdown, And The Art Of Socratic Dialogue - Russ Roberts
The Life and Times of a Thoroughly liberal Prime Minister - Malcolm Turnbull
How To Put The Economy Into A Coma - Chris Edmond & Steve Hamilton
The Price Of Uncertainty - Chris Joye
EHow An Italian Town Conquered Coronavirus - Andrea Crisanti
A (New) Darwinian Left - Peter Singer (Live in Melbourne)
In The Foothills Of A Pandemic - Yaneer Bar-Yam
Coronavirus, Covert Influence, And Cold War II - Kevin Rudd
The Evolution Of A Renegade - David Sloan Wilson
EThe Intellectual Wild South - Eric Weinstein
EThe Silent Hero Of The Australian Economy - Ian Macfarlane
The Modern Empiricist Proving Old Wisdom On Household Debt And Recession - Amir Sufi
How To Build A Future More Like Star Trek Than Terminator - Andrew Leigh
The Untold Tale Of How One Ruthless Company Subjugated A Subcontinent - William Dalrymple
On Radical Uncertainty, "Phantastic Objects", And Blowing Bubbles - David Tuckett
Lifting The Veil On Sydney's Crime And Skulduggery - Kate McClymont
Markets And The Madness Of Crowds - Robert Shiller
The Dogged Journalist Who (May Have) Pricked A Property Bubble - Adele Ferguson
The World According To A Maverick, Beach-Biding Stock Picker - John Hempton
Xi Loves Us, Xi Loves Us Not? - Kevin Rudd
Housing Bubble Week Finale: It's The Housing Cycle, Stupid! - Ed Leamer
Housing Bubble Week: Getting Things Done In Western Sydney - John Hempton
Housing Bubble Week: A Philosophy Of Bubbles - Timo Henckel
Housing Bubble Week: Speculation And Unchartered Waters - Chris Joye
Housing Bubble Week: Housing Bubbles As Availability Cascades - Timur Kuran
Housing Bubble Week: Lessons From Amsterdam's 'Gentlemen's Canal' - Piet Eichholtz
Housing Bubble Week: Can We Predict Housing Bubbles? - Dean Baker
'Housing Bubble Week' & Joe's Speech To Mensa
Doing Good Better - Will MacAskill
The Evolution Of Bret Weinstein
The Three Big Lies Poisoning Young Minds - Jonathan Haidt
On Recessions - Andrew Charlton
Elephants In The Room - Jonathan Tepper
When The Sky Fell In - Kevin Rudd
The Man Who Defied Europe - Yanis Varoufakis
Where Venture Capital Meets Social Purpose - May Samali
A Short Story Of Everything - David Christian
The Art/Science Of A High Impact Career - Rob Wiblin
The Brave Cookie Monster - Brendan Eich
The Legendary, Fraud-Sniffing Short Seller - Marc Cohodes
My Friend Richard, And Theories Of The Universe - Leonard Susskind
The Shape Of Probability - Harry Crane
How Peter Thiel Destroyed Gawker - Ryan Holiday