231) Robert H. Frank: Using peer pressure to reverse our inflating norms of material adequacy
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Robert H. Frank is a Professor of Management and Economics at Cornell University, Economic View columnist for the New York Times, and the author of many books, including his latest, Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work.
In this podcast episode, Robert sheds light on what this current crisis reveals about our economic inequities; why it's important to distinguish between absolute and relative poverty, as well as absolute and relative wealth; how we can leverage the power of peer pressure in our favor to get the changes we wish to create; and more.
Featured music: Mission to Earth by NYADO
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| 0:00.0 | I have a quick but important ask. As you're probably aware, Green Dreamer is an independent |
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| 1:03.8 | This month, Green Dreamer is also sponsored by my favorite tea brand, Arbor Tees, |
| 1:08.8 | and I'm so grateful for their support during this time. |
| 1:11.8 | They source loose leave and organic certified teas. They use backyard compostable packaging, |
| 1:16.8 | which they've been doing for the past 10 years, by the way. Their operations run on solar energy, |
| 1:21.6 | and all of their efforts are offset by carbon fund. I myself only bought tea from Arbor Tees this past year. I love supporting them |
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| 1:44.1 | We know we need to make policy changes. We know we need to take massive investments in renewable |
| 1:50.2 | energy, but without some sort of external prod, it's very difficult to take big steps like that. |
| 1:56.6 | But I think the need to make massive public investment anyway when the pandemic ends to get the |
| 2:02.9 | economy back on its feet will be just the spur will need to get the trillion plus dollars a |
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