Marketplace worked with me to produce this video about the economics of signalling in the workplace. They did a fantastic job, and you even get to hear my David Attenborough impression. The video is loosely based on one of the Dear Economist letters. Enjoy!

Here’s the hedgehog. Here’s the book. Thanks to NPR and Planet Money for inviting me on!

One of the least important but most enjoyable pieces of research reported in “The Logic of Life”, now available on video.
Further reading here.

I never realised how topical “Why Your Boss is Overpaid” was going to become when I wrote the chapter. Now I’ve made a video about one of the ideas.
Further reading here.

I’ve been wanting to make a video explaining Thomas Schelling’s model of racial segregation for a long time. Here it is!

More about Thomas Schelling here in my “Lunch with the FT” piece shortly after he won the Nobel prize.

My second response to Dan Ariely is on video here.

Yesterday saw my date with destiny - and very nearly a date with Stephen Colbert, the charismatic right-wing loon who hosts The Colbert Report. I hope I am not breaking any confidences when I say that out of character, Stephen is charming and very empathetic. That said, he stays in character a lot - backstage is a pretty nerve-wracking experience. During our interview he managed to get me to urge the nation’s children to start smoking, compare oral sex to Pepsi, and announce that our brain is our gut. Not bad for four minutes - for the remaining 8 seconds I kept my dignity very well.
Earlier in the week I spoke to the Googlers; forty minutes instead of four and gentle but intelligent questioning. I’d like to tell you more about Google but they zapped me with a special mind ray and I can’t recall a thing, except bright lights and soft voices.
Links to both Colbert and Google are here.