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Explain It to Me

How the rich ate all the growth

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Education, Society & Culture, Politics

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Ezra and Matt discuss two big papers that help explain America's economic malaise: Income and Wealth Inequality: Evidence and Policy Implications The Rise of Market Power and the Macroeconomic Implications Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The manual science, Thomas Piketty and Gabriel Zuckman.

0:03.1

People talk about them on podcasts all the time.

0:05.1

Music

0:19.0

Hello, welcome to another episode of The Weeds and the Vox Media Podcast Network.

0:22.6

I'm Matthew Iglesias.

0:23.9

With me in the studio is Ezra Klein.

0:26.1

And no one else.

0:26.9

No one else.

0:27.7

It is an empty, an empty room.

0:29.8

Go in mono a mono.

0:31.5

Sarah, what did she do?

0:32.5

Did she go on vacation?

0:33.5

I don't know.

0:34.5

It's August.

0:35.5

She's on vacation.

0:36.5

It's terrible.

0:37.5

I've been to her seat.

0:38.5

Everybody's gone.

0:39.5

We've changed.

0:40.5

We've changed the seating.

0:41.5

And we're also going to tweak the format of the show a little bit.

0:44.1

Yeah.

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