Gilles Saint-Paul is Professeur à l'Ecole Normale Supérieure. He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique in Engineering and received his PhD from MIT in Economics. Gilles and Steve discuss the French elite education system, the Yellow Vest movement, French politics and populism, and Saint-Paul’s paper on marriage markets and hypergamy.

0:00 Introduction

1:43 Gilles Saint-Paul's background and education

6:31 French and American higher elite education

14:44 The Yellow Vests

41:46 Mating and Hypergamy

References:

On the Yellow Vest Insurrection

https://gillessaintpaul.wordpress.com/2018/12/18/on-the-yellow-vest-insurrection/

Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage

https://ideas.repec.org/p/ide/wpaper/9118.html

Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.

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Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (Superfocus.ai, SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU.

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