Philosophy-economic seminars with our world's leading minds.
Hear directly from leaders and innovators who are defining their industries.
Michael Spence
Nobel Prize Economist
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Sir Oliver Hart
Nobel Prize Economist
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Skye Perryman
TIME100 Honoree
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Professor Mark Granovetter
Stanford University
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Professor Don Moore
UC Berkeley Haas
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Professor Paul Adler
USC Marshall
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Carlos Escapa
UC Berkeley / Industry
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Professor Eugene M. Caruso
UCLA Anderson
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Interviewers:
ECONOMICS & POLICY | Oct. 10, 2025
Highlights from our conversation with Nobel Laureate Michael Spence on education as signal and skill, mobility, and balancing Keynesian and laissez-faire approaches.
By Leo Cao, Sannidhi Talgery
SOCIOLOGY | Jul. 21, 2025
“You never know which one it’s going to be.” — Mark Granovetter
Stanford’s Mark Granovetter explains why your looser connections often open the biggest doors — and how to build them with authenticity in a hyper-digital era.
By Leo Cao
ECONOMIC ETHICS | Oct. 28, 2025
Building on Paul Adler’s vision of collaborative institutions and Peter Drucker’s mission-before-profit philosophy, leaders are rediscovering that long-term efficiency comes from shared purpose.
By Leo Cao
Welcome to our website! I’m Leo Cao (the jolly fellow in the grey slacks), and I founded The Socratic Exchange for a simple, somewhat necessary reason: I go to a school where humanities programs are frequently cut to fund STEM. I was supposed to become another engineer. But as a diehard philosophy-lover, I still found myself hoarding philosophy books and fighting for ancient ideas in spite of our district's measly budget. So, I built the thing I wished existed: a seminar where young people could have serious dialogues about philosophy and economics without sounding ridiculous.
What began as me rambling about moral markets to anyone polite enough to listen has become a global seminar table that even Nobel laureates, TIME100 CEOs, and professors from Stanford to Harvard sit down to talk. I named it after Socrates' intellectual dialogues, but really, it reflects my refusal to let curiosity die in the mind.
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