LEVITT: Now it’s the point in the show where I welcome my producer Morgan on, and usually we take a listener question, but today we will instead do a year in review. Hey, Morgan.

LEVEY: Hi, Steve. How are you?

LEVITT: I’m doing great. How about you?

LEVEY: I’m good.

LEVITT: So, tell me, what were your favorite episodes this year?

LEVEY: So I have

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STEIN GREENBERG: The reality is there are so many environments in which human beings and nature need to work together to either protect or steward key resources that are important both from an ecological perspective and from a human perspective. So for example, Rare’s biggest program is around coastal fisheries. There are small-scale fisheries all

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LEVITT: I think of academic disciplines as being toolkits for making sense of the world. So, I know economics best, and I describe the economics worldview as essentially applied common sense, but added to that the requirement that the ideas have to be able to be expressed mathematically, which requires that everything is very simple. And so, we’re

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STEIN GREENBERG: The word design can be a noun, it could be like the thing you make, or it could be how you make something. And at the d.school we actually mean both. Let me start with an example. A number of years ago we had four incredible students who were coming from very different disciplinary backgrounds. There were two medical students, a c

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