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This is the second episode of Discourse Disruptors. If you missed the first one where I spoke with

former ACLU head Nadine Strassen and NYU Law Professor Thane Rosenbaum about hate speech and

American law, you can find that right now online at IQ2US.org. That's IQ the number two US.org.

Now let's move forward on this one. My guest for this conversation is economist and author

Allison Shreger. Allison, welcome to Intelligent Squared. Thank you for having me.

I'm pretty sure I've seen your face out in the audience at our debate.

I like the biggest fan girl. I go to FU2B and I just, I love everything about it.

In one sentence, what's some of what you love about it? It makes me think I learned something new

and it's provocative and my favorite thing that ever happens is someone convinces me to change my mind.

Well, that's actually something that we want to talk about, but it's a pleasure to have plucked

you from our audience into the studio for a conversation really in our wheelhouse. The whole nature

and quality of debate and conversation and what shapes our ability to listen and to think and

to judge critically. So you, for those who don't know, you're a journalist at courts,

your co-founder of Lifecycle Finance Partners. That's a firm that advises on risk to have that,

you have a career that's gone a lot of places. You've worked in finance, you've worked in policy,

you've worked in media, you're a journalist, you were a consultant to the OECD and to the IMF.

And now you've come out with a book called An Economist Walks Into A Brothel,

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