More or Less Creators & Guests

Paul Connolly is an investigative journalist, radio personality, documentary maker, and co-host of The Inquiry podcast.

Tim Harford is an economist and journalist.

Charlotte McDonald is a journalist for BBC radio, and producer of More or Less Podcast.

Michael Blastland is a writer, broadcaster, current-affairs presenter at BBC, and producer of More or Less: Behind the Stats Podcast.

Julianne Holt-Lunstad is a psychologist at Brigham Young University. She is a fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and Association for Psychological Science.

Dr. Katelyn Jetelina is an epidemiologist. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Texas School of Public Health. She also has a secondary appointment at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.Jetelina received her B.A. in General Physiology with a minor in Geography from the University of Arizona. She received her M.P.H. in Epidemiology and her Ph.D. in Epidemiology with a minor in Biostatistics from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

Emily Oster is an American economist and bestselling author.

Matthew Parker is an author, comedian, YouTube personality, and communicator.

Siobhan Roberts is a science journalist, biographer, and historian of mathematics.Roberts's work has appeared in The New York Times Science Times, The New York Times Magazine, MIT Technology Review, The New Yorker Elements blog, Quanta, The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The National Post, The Guardian, The Mathematical Intelligencer, Maisonneuve, Canadian Geographic, and Smithsonian. Her first book, "King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry," was published in 2006, and won the Mathematical Association of America's Euler Book Prize. Her second book, "Wind Wizard: Alan G. Davenport and the Art of Wind Engineering," was published in 2012, and won the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering's W. Gordon Plewes History Award. Her third book, "Genius At Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway," was published in 2015.Roberts received her B.A. in History from Queen's University and her B.A. in Journalism from Ryerson University.

Johan Norberg is a Swedish author and historian of ideas, devoted to promoting economic globalization and what he describes as classical liberal positions.

Elizabeth L. Cline is a journalist, writer, and author of the book The Conscious Closet.

Dr. Hannah Ritchie is the Senior Researcher and Head of Research at Our World In Data.

Paul Lewis is a financial journalist, broadcaster, and host of the Money Box podcast.

Monica de Bolle is an economist, and host of the Economia Podcast.

Betsey Stevenson is an economist and professor. She is currently Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and a fellow of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich. She is also on the Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association.In 2013, Stevenson was appointed to the Council of Economic Advisers. She previously served as Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor under Secretary Hilda Solis from 2010. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor of Business and Public Policy, at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.Stevenson's research explores the relationship between wealth inequality and happiness. She has published widely in leading economics journals about the impact of public policies on the labor market, with a focus on women and families. She has also written widely on subjective well-being. Her research is interdisciplinary, and her research had an impact in economics, sociology, psychology, and demography, and within legal scholarship. She is a columnist for Bloomberg View and a sometime commentator for Public Radio's Marketplace program.Stevenson earned her B.A. in economics and mathematics from Wellesley College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

Professor of philosophy, psychology and cognitive neuroscience at CUNY. Host of Consciousness Live! podcast

Mike Wendling is an editor of the Death by Conspiracy podcast.

Duncan Weldon is a journalist, former political advisor, economist, researcher, and market strategist.

Timandra Harkness is a British writer, presenter, and comedian.