Episode · EconTalk · 2023-02-20

Russ Roberts & Marco Ramos: books mentioned on EconTalk

Marco Ramos on Misunderstanding Mental Illness

1 book · With Marco Ramos · Listen · Watch on YouTube

When psychiatrist Marco Ramos of Yale University prescribes antidepressants to patients in distress and they ask him how they work, Ramos admits: We don't really know. And too often, they don't work at all.

Russ Roberts discussed A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   A Beautiful Mind

   Sylvia Nasar · at 45:47

   A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar is a biographical work chronicling the life of mathematician John Nash and his struggle with schizophrenia.

   Discussed

   “if you've read the beautiful A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasser or seen the the movie uh you know John Nash turned down I think uh offered to be chair of a Department of Mathematics because he said he was busy being emperor of Antarctica and he meant it very seriously”

   Russ Roberts Marco Ramos on Misunderstanding Mental Illness 2023-02-20 Listen at 45:47

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