Robin Hanson is an Associate Professor of Economics, and received his Ph.D in 1997 in social sciences from Caltech. He joined George Mason's economics faculty in 1999 after completing a two-year post-doc at U.C Berkely. His major fields of interest include health policy, regulation, and formal political theory.

Index to The Jim Rutt Show featuring Robin Hanson

Introduction and "The Age of Em" (00:00:00 - 00:36:00) = 36 minutes
Rates of Change (00:36:00 - 00:39:00) = 3 minutes
The Fermi Paradox (00:39:00 - 00:59:00) = 20 minutes
"The Elephant in the Brain" (00:59:00 - 01:14:00) = 15 minutes
Political Decision Making Section (01:14:00 - 01:26:00) = 12 minutes
Should We Publish Tax Returns? (01:26:00 - 01:37:00) = 11 minutes

Transcript of The Jim Rutt Show featuring Robin Hanson