When i finished my masters at oxford, i wasn't intending to go into research. That sher i applied for a lot of investment banks and otheri applied for ih t jobs. A when i member getting an offer from bs w, now kind of long closhed british investment bank, to go work in the i t department. I turned out to be fantastic one is it really inspired me to get interest in economics. They answered what i would call pub economic questions. So again, that was in a nearo empirical economics wasn't dominant. It is much more dominant now. But so i just basically focused on data. And i was lucky at the f s,...
What might the electrification of factories teach us about how quickly we’ll adapt to remote work? What gives American companies an edge over their competitors on the international stage? What value do management consultants really provide? Stanford professor Nick Bloom’s research studies how management practices, productivity techniques, and uncertainty shape outcomes across companies and countries.
He joined Tyler for a conversation about which areas of science are making progress, the factors that have made research more expensive, why government should invest more in R&D, how lean management transformed manufacturing, how India’s congested legal system inhibits economic development, the effects of technology on Scottish football hooliganism, why firms thrive in China, how weak legal systems incentivize nepotism, why he’s not worried about the effects of remote work on American productivity (in the short-term), the drawbacks of elite graduate programs, how his first “academic love” shapes his work today, the benefits of working with co-authors, why he prefers periodicals and podcasts to reading books, and more.
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