The Mixtape with Scott (Featuring Caitlin Myers) Season 5: Episode 1 of The Odd Couple!
From The Mixtape with Scott by scott cunningham
March 10, 2026 · 53 min
About this episode
The episode marks the beginning of Season 5, titled 'The Odd Couple', featuring economist Caitlin Myers and discussing the evolution of the podcast and economics.
The Odd Couple The Mixtape with Scott is back. Season 5. Season 5 of the Mixtape with Scott is going to be different, and fun, and different, and creative! It’ll be called The Odd Couple. And it’ll be called “The Mixtape with Scott (Featuring Caitlin Myers)”. It’ll have different naming conventions until Caitlin pick one we like! Let me tell you all about it. I started the podcast around four years ago as a way of creating an oral history of economics while also tracing out the history of the credibility revolution through Orley Ashenfelter, his students, and the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton. I tacked on a bunch of other things too along the way like “the students of Gary Becker” and “economist in the tech industry”, as well as any number of eddies I wanted to swim in along the way. And after 130 interviews, I more or less felt like I had tapped my creativity out. I largely came to understand the evolution of causal inference a particular way, which I wrote up across several substacks, as well as added throughout my new book, Causal Inference: the Remix (proofs came to me today in fact). It was very rewarding. Maybe one day I’ll write up the interviews as a book…
People in this episode
Host: Scott Cunningham
Guest: Caitlin Myers
Topics covered
- economics
- causal inference
- oral history
- creativity
- interviews
- podcast evolution
Keywords
- economics
- causal inference
- podcast
- interviews
- creativity
- oral history
- Caitlin Myers
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Princeton
Books & works: Causal Inference: the Remix
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