How do we remain resilient and flexible under difficult conditions? In this episode, we talk to Katie Starkweather (UCSB) about her work with the Shodagor, who spend appreciable amounts of life living on small boats in rural Bangladesh. Topics include: what is life like living on a small boat?, loneliness, social roles, division of labor, and how things like weather and ecology create and also put up barriers to social connection. Oh, and we talk about Coase and transaction costs (for all you Ronald Coase fans out there).

More about Katie Starkweather:

https://kathrinestarkweather.com/

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ftzkN60AAAAJ&hl=en

They say that if you do what you love you never have to work a day in your life. In this episode, polymath Athena Atkipis (ASU) shares her enthusiasm and love for all things cooperative. Topics include music, Zombies, borderline personality, vibeing, alignment, cooperative energy, how not to build an institution, and how to capture the magic of musicians jamming together. We dare you to not feel inspired!

More about Athena Atkipis:

https://www.athenaaktipis.org/

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8abR970AAAAJ&hl=en

More about Pickin' in the Pines:

https://pickininthepines.org/

Philosopher of Ethics and Politics Hanno Sauer (Utrecht) examines whether moral progress is all its cracked up to be. Topics include social class, being slightly more moral than others, rationalization costs, the relationship between intellectuals and power, and the tolerated scrounging of morality.

https://www.uu.nl/staff/HCSauer

https://philpeople.org/profiles/hanno-sauer

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=n0djnuAAAAAJ&hl=de