207. Should We Really Behave Like Economists Say We Do?

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🗓️ 4 June 2015

⏱️ 55 minutes

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One man's attempt to remake his life in the mold of homo economicus.

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0:00.0	Alright, let's start with your name.
0:05.5	My name is Greg Rizalski, and two people who listen to this program, especially if they
0:08.9	get all the way to the end to the credits.
0:11.0	Your name is a familiar name, yes.
0:13.0	Maybe, I guess.
0:14.9	But yeah, I'm a producer at Freakonomics Radio.
0:16.8	How you liking your job, by the way?
0:18.9	It's great.
0:19.9	I mean, you know, of course I am your boss, you're not really going to say otherwise.
0:23.2	And Greg, you are what might be called, or at least I might call you this.
0:26.6	A real fan of economics, yes, would you say that's accurate or no?
0:30.2	Yeah, I mean, you know, on a typical Friday night, if it's going well, I'll open up a
0:34.8	microeconomics textbook and just, no.
0:38.4	More seriously, yeah, I'm a huge fan of economics.
0:40.6	I studied at grad school.
0:42.6	You read econ papers kind of not for fun.
0:44.6	I mean, for your job, for Freakonomics Radio, but you like it.
0:47.1	You blog, right?
0:48.1	You blog a blog.
0:49.1	Yeah, right about your blog.
0:50.1	Yeah, I write about economics.
0:51.1	And I remember when the two of us were at the American Economics Association annual meetings
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