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94. The Price of Doing Business with John List

Dec 10, 2022

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Gratitude for Opportunities and Randomized Experiments

00:24

Testing Economic Theory in Auctions

00:25

Enhancing Value Through Implementation in Research

00:27

Advancement of Field Experiments in Science

00:22

Introduction

2min

The Cinderella Story of Modern Economics

2min

Why Randomized Experiments Are So Powerful

2min

Why Didn't We Use Randomized Experiments?

3min

Randomized Experiments

3min

You Lost One of the Most Important Revolutions Our Profession Has Ever Had

4min

People I Most Admire Is Sponsored by Masterclass

4min

Is There Discrimination in the Market?

3min

Is There a Bias in Baseball Card Conventions?

3min

10.

The Voltage Effect

4min

11.

Scaling a Petri Disk

2min

12.

Why Do Projects Fail to Scale?

3min

13.

The Worst Offender on This Dimension

3min

14.

Uber and Lyft - How to Get Drivers Back - Travis Kalan

3min

15.

Uber

2min

16.

People I Most Admire Is Sponsored by Upwork

4min

17.

Uber Apologies - I Received a Bad Trip and I'm Going to Start Taking Lift

5min

18.

Uber and Lyft

2min

19.

University of Chicago - I Love Field Experiments

2min

20.

You Shouldn't Forget About Economics

2min

21.

I Don't Think You Can Do It, but You Can't Do It.

2min

22.

The Value of a Good Question to a Great Answer

3min

23.

How to Ask and Answer Open-Endered Questions

2min

24.

Asking Questions on the Freakonomics Podcast

2min

25.

The Freakonomics Radio Network

2min

From baseball card conventions to Walmart, John List has always used field experiments to say revolutionary things about economics. He explains the value of an apology, why scaling shouldn’t be an afterthought, and why he moved to the private sector to stay at the forefront of science.

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People I (Mostly) Admire

94. The Price of Doing Business with John List

Episode guests

Gratitude for Opportunities and Randomized Experiments

Testing Economic Theory in Auctions

Enhancing Value Through Implementation in Research

Advancement of Field Experiments in Science

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