Rationally Speaking Podcast

The case for one billion Americans, & more (Matt Yglesias)

Feb 3, 2021

01:40:49

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The Risk of Nuclear War Increasing

02:22

Urbanization Without Displacement

01:54

Inequality Impacts Asset Prices, Right?

01:46

Introduction

4min

Is the Homestead Act a Good Idea?

3min

Is There a Balance of High Versus Low-Skill Immigration?

4min

Why Haven't We Boosted High-Skill Immigration?

5min

Is That a Log Rolling Chip?

2min

Climate Change - Is That a Deal Breaker?

2min

Climate Change Is Not Like That

2min

Is There a Consensus on Climate Change?

3min

Is That Because of a Change in Their Views or Just Political Alignment?

3min

10.

The Case for Building More Housing

5min

11.

Are You a Yimby?

4min

12.

Urbanization Without Displacement

2min

13.

Is Market Rate Housing a Sufficient Solution to Low Income Housing?

3min

14.

Do You Have Character Assessments for Your Arguments?

4min

15.

The Threatening Storm by Ken Pollock - Is That Really a Good Book?

2min

16.

Is There Really a Need for Disdiscretionary Wars?

2min

17.

Is Saddam Hussein a Threatening War?

4min

18.

The Risk of Nuclear War Increasing

2min

19.

Should I Have Known Better Than to Support the War?

4min

20.

I Don't Have a Good Sense of What Is Strong Evidence of a Nuclear Program

3min

21.

Is There a Difference Between Good Arguments and Bad Arguments?

2min

22.

Are You Making Bad Arguments?

2min

23.

QAnon - Isn't It a Trap?

5min

24.

Do You Feel Like You've Got a Better Taste for Arguments?

2min

25.

Is That Update You're Talking About With Regard to Foreign Policy Establishment?

2min

26.

Trust Expertise in the Public Health Community?

4min

27.

Bioethics

2min

28.

Is There a Principled Case Against Yimby?

3min

29.

Clustering Effects

5min

30.

The Housing Crisis in Japan

4min

31.

Inequality Impacts Asset Prices, Right?

2min

32.

Is There a Quantitative Limit on Urban Development?

5min

Matt Yglesias talks about One Billion Americans, his book arguing that it’s in the United States’ national interest to dramatically boost its population, by expanding immigration and having more babies.

Matt and Julia also discuss arguments for and against the “YIMBY” movement, which pushes for building more housing; what they’ve both learned from reflecting on their misguided support for the Iraq War in 2003; and why (and how) Matt is trying to be more of a rationalist.

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