Adam Davidson on Hollywood and the Future of Work

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🗓️ 15 June 2015

⏱️ 74 minutes

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What's it like to hang out with Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, and Steve Carell for two months? Adam Davidson, who writes for the New York Times Sunday Magazine, was the technical advisor to the upcoming movie, The Big Short. Besides rubbing shoulders with celebrities, he noticed what he calls the Hollywood model where highly talented workers come together temporarily in project-based employment. Davidson discusses the costs and benefits of this approach and its potential emergence as a more common phenomenon throughout the economy.

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0:32.0	Today is May 29, 2015, and my guest is Adam Davidson, co-founder of NPR's Planet
0:38.4	Money.
0:39.4	He writes the on-money column for the New York Times Sunday magazine.
0:43.3	Adam, welcome back to Econ Talk.
0:45.6	It's really great to be here, Russ.
0:47.2	Our topic for today is an article you wrote recently at the Times magazine called,
0:51.2	what Hollywood can teach us about the future of work.
0:55.3	It's some of the economics you learned while being a technical advisor on Hollywood
0:58.6	film.
0:59.6	I want to start by hearing more about that experience.
1:03.4	Technical advisor to a Hollywood film sounds like a very good job, or what the girl's
1:07.8	called, nice work, if you can get it.
1:10.2	What was that like?
1:11.2	It was absolutely awesome.
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