All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions

The Lauder Institute

Join Stanford GSB finance professor Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen of The Wharton School in a conversation with prominent business leaders about common flaws in the decision making process and what to do about them. Learn more at AllElseEqualPodcast.com.All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions Podcast is a production of Stanford Graduate School of Business and is produced by University FM.

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All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions

Episodes (96)

Mar 18th Ep74 Is The Financial Sector Good for Society?
Mar 4th Rerun: Ep29 “How Do You Become CEO?” with Dirk Jenter
Feb 19th Ep73 “The Dangers of Group Think on Decision Making” with Adi Sunderam

All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions

Mar 18, 2026
19 minutes
17 MB

What value does a financial sector add to society? How would society function without a financial sector? In this episode, hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen make the case that a competitive market financial sector is crucial to economic growth and the betterment of society. Jonathan and Jules contend with the critiques they hear most often when it comes to free markets, breaking down the core purpose of a financial sector and why its value is not easily observable or necessarily fair. They also compare and contrast other financial systems, like co...

All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions

Ep74 Is The Financial Sector Good for Society?

The Lauder Institute

00:00 -18:51