Economic Sociology Pt. 2 (MONEY/FREAKONOMICS) with Steven Levitt and Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman

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🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Part 2 is here! Gamestop, #stonks, Universal Basic Income, how to incentivize things that are good for us, whether or not kids should have an allowance, Trekonomics and more. Economist, professor and “Freakonomics” co-author Steven Levitt joins to chat about everything from being cheap and what decision making costs our minds to the worth of the Amazon rainforest. Rising economics star and Harvard Fellow Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman graces us with her thoughts on the subreddit WallStreetBets, how we measure the health of the economy, dealing with bullies, and Gossip Girl. Hey, watch out: you’re about to like Economics. Follow Anna Gift Opoku-Agymen at Twitter.com/itsafronomics and Instagram.com/itsafronomics Follow Steven Levitt at Twitter.com/stevendlevitt or Twitter.com/Freakonomics A donation was made to RISC: risc.uchicago.edu Steven’s podcast is People I (Mostly) Admire: https://freakonomics.com/pima/ Sponsor links: www.alieward.com/ologies-sponsors More links and info at alieward.com/ologies/economicsociology Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes! Support the show: http://Patreon.com/ologies

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, it's still that gift card that you found in the back of your wallet and you have
0:03.6	no idea how much is left on it.
0:05.0	Alie Ward, we are back with the second half of the episode that was never meant to be
0:09.7	its economics, well, its economic sociology.
0:13.2	So there is anology and its money, savings, spending, stocks and stonks and game stop and
0:20.1	Reddit and hedge funds and the Amazon universal basic income and more with two of the world's
0:26.2	most exciting economists.
0:28.1	Okay, but first a really quick thank you to everyone at patreon.com slash allergies for supporting
0:32.5	the show for a mere one dollar a month or more.
0:36.3	You can submit questions and see behind the scenes videos and there are live streams and
0:40.0	stuff.
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