Robin Hanson is an Associate Professor of Economics, and received his Ph.D in 1997 in social sciences from Caltech. He joined George Mason's economics faculty in 1999 after completing a two-year post-doc at U.C Berkely. His major fields of interest include health policy, regulation, and formal political theory. Index to The Jim Rutt Show featuring Robin Hanson Introduction and "The Age of Em" (00:00:00 - 00:36:00) = 36 minutes Rates of Change (00:36:00 - 00:39:00) = 3 minutes The Fermi Paradox (00:39:00 - 00:59:00) = 20 minutes "The Elephant in the Brain" (00:59:00 - 01:14:00) = 15 minutes Political Decision Making Section (01:14:00 - 01:26:00) = 12 minutes Should We Publish Tax Returns? (01:26:00 - 01:37:00) = 11 minutes Transcript of The Jim Rutt Show featuring Robin Hanson