162. “If Mayors Ruled the World”

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🗓️ 10 April 2014

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Unlike certain elected officials in Washington, mayors all over the country actually get stuff done. So maybe we should ask them to do more?

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0:00.0	If I could say that our new book, Think Like a Freak, will be published on May 12th
0:10.4	as a hardcover ebook, audiobook, large print edition, you name it.
0:14.8	And if you pre-order it in any format from any store, you can get the first chapter
0:19.0	now delivered to your email inbox.
0:21.8	Just go to Freakonomics.com slash sneak peak.
0:25.2	There's a lot more information at Freakonomics.com, including our book tour schedule, starts in New
0:30.4	York City, where Levitt and I will speak and sign books at Symphony Space and at Iburns
0:35.6	in Noble.
0:36.6	We will also visit Washington, DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, London,
0:42.3	and the hay festival of literature in the arts in Wales.
0:45.4	Again, all the details are at Freakonomics.com.
0:58.2	Chris Smith writes about politics for New York Magazine.
1:02.0	You've been at New York Magazine.
1:03.0	It's coming here.
1:04.0	It's 1988.
1:05.0	Who would you say is the most, let's call it influential mayor in New York City history?
1:13.4	New, easily, LaGuardia, both because of the time he was mayor and the fact that so many
1:19.6	mayors, not just New York City, tried to model himself after him.
1:24.3	We are going to try and demonstrate that a non-policence, non-political, honest, clean
1:33.1	government is possible in our city.
1:37.8	The O'Rello LaGuardia was New York's mayor from 1934 to 1945, a long and eventful period,
1:45.8	the Great Depression, Second World War.
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