Contemporaneamente Podcast: Luigi Zingales and Chiara Marletto on Economics and Science

The Contemporaneamente podcast, curated by Mariantonietta Firmani, features a dialogue between economist Luigi Zingales and theoretical physicist Chiara Marletto. Zingales, a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and director of the George J. Stigler Center, discusses the impact of digital ICT on economies of scale and transparency, the need for meritocracy, and the risk of economics becoming mere marketing. Marletto, a researcher at the University of Oxford's Clarendon Laboratory and Wolfson College, explains her work on constructor theory with David Deutsch, which generalizes quantum computation and has applications in information theory, thermodynamics, and quantum biology. They explore the entanglement concept in finance, the importance of doubt in knowledge accumulation, and how technological development concentrates wealth, requiring better democratic management. The podcast is available on Spreaker.