Episode 361: Alex Edmans - Finding "The Truth" in Economics, Finance, and Life
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This is the Rational Reminder Podcast, a weekly reality check on sensible investing and financial decision making from one Canadian. We are hosted by me, Benjamin Felix, Chief Investment Officer at PWL Capital. Alright, this is my first time doing an intro and hosting a guest by myself. Cameron's done a couple like that, but this is my first time. I had a great conversation with Alex Edmonds, who is his second time on this podcast.
He is a professor of finance at London Business School. He's got a PhD from MIT as a Fulbright scholar. He's previously a tenured professor at Wharton and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. He's done a lot of great work on what he calls growing the pie related to social responsibility. He's done a couple of extremely popular TED talks.
His previous book, Grow the Pie, is what we talked to him about last time he was on the podcast. And his latest book may contain lies, how stories, statistics, and studies exploit our biases, and what we can do about it, which was published in 2024, is what we discussed in this episode. It's a great book, and I think we had a great conversation covering the topics. It's thinking about how finding the truth today, because there's so much information available to people is increasingly difficult.
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