All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions

Jonathan Berk, Jules van Binsbergen

Booking Overview

An expert-led interview show focused on decision-making, finance, economics, and business, featuring prominent academics, business leaders, and senior public officials. Credible client pitches include distinguished professors, authors with substantial research or books, experienced executives, and former senior government or national-security officials; booking is likely high difficulty because guests generally have significant expertise and public prominence.

Metrics

Episodes: 106

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 2.8M subscribers

Instagram: 233.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

team@ventures.fm

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Host

Jonathan Berk - Finance professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Jules van Binsbergen - Finance professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Recognized academics, prominent business leaders, accomplished authors, and senior government or national-security officials with authoritative expertise on decision-making, economics, finance, policy, or strategy.

Required Achievements:

Published books, Professorships at leading universities, Senior government leadership, Significant research or public policy expertise

Recent Guest Discussions

Steven Pinker - Common Knowledge, Language, Social Norms, Cooperation, Speculative Trading, And Open Debate.

H. R. McMaster - Military Intelligence, National Security Advising, Enemy Assessments, Proxies, Major-power Strategy, And Information Warfare.

Joshua Rauh - Wealth Taxation, The Laffer Curve, Behavioral Responses To Tax Increases, Revenue Effects, And Innovation Incentives.

Recent Topics

Decision Making, Behavioral Economics, Finance, Business, Strategy

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions

Rerun: Ep73 “The Dangers of Group Think on Decision Making” with Adi Sunderam

August 13, 2026

All Else Equal is taking a short break over the summer and will be revisiting some of our favorite conversations from last season. The show will be back with new episodes soon. Whether it be in politics, public health, or corporate finance, why are people more likely to interpret facts or data in a way that fits their preconceived notions about the world as opposed to searching for the fundamental truth? A new paper from the Harvard Business School called, Sharing Models to Interpret Data ...

Rerun: Ep69 “The Science Behind Why We Don’t Just Say What We Mean” with Psychologist Steven Pinker - Part 2

July 29, 2026

All Else Equal is taking a short break over the summer and will be revisiting some of our favorite conversations from last season. The show will be back with new episodes soon. In the final part of this two-part interview, Steven Pinker, an experimental psychologist and Harvard professor, again joins hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen to discuss his new book When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyd...

Rerun: Ep69 “The Science Behind Why We Don’t Just Say What We Mean” with Psychologist Steven Pinker - Part 1

July 15, 2026

All Else Equal is taking a short break over the summer and will be revisiting some of our favorite conversations from last season. The show will be back with new episodes soon. Everyday, we participate in seemingly arbitrary but essential choices for society to function. We all agree on what side of the road to drive on, to use paper currency, or to speak the same language. These kinds of choices make up a group’s common knowledge – things that are made blatantly and publicly known. But what...

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