ICYMI: Paul Krugman

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, News, Politics, News Commentary, Philosophy

4.6 • 10.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2019

⏱️ 95 minutes

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For this episode of the Ezra Klein show we're digging back into the archives to share another of our favorite episodes with you! *** On October 24, 2016, in the final days of the presidential election, Paul Krugman, the Nobel-prize winning economist and New York Times columnist, tweeted, "When this election is finally over, I'm planning to celebrate with an orgy of...serious policy discussion.” Then, of course, Donald Trump won the election, and serious policy discussion took a backseat to alternative facts, at least for awhile. But now it’s time! In this podcast, Krugman and I cover a lot of ground. We talk taxes, net neutrality, universal basic incomes, job guarantees, antitrust, automation, productivity growth, health care, climate change, college costs, and more. Krugman explains why more information doesn’t make people better thinkers, the “kitchen test” for assessing how much technological progress a society is really making, and what the role of policy analysis is when the policymakers don’t care about evidence. Enjoy! Recommended books: The Foundation novels by Isaac Asimov An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume Plagues and Peoples by William McNeil We are conducting an audience survey to better serve you. It takes no more than five minutes, and it really helps out the show. Please take our survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3X6WMNF Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's summer blockbuster season and if you're tired of movies with mediocre special effects,
0:06.8	guess what?
0:07.8	So are the artists who make them.
0:09.8	And by overworking these employees, you know, who are already so few in numbers, basically
0:15.3	it's a race to the bottom.
0:16.8	And the film is declining quality, the fans revolt, they earn less money and the population
0:23.7	of qualified workers is that much closer to complete burnout.
0:27.1	To go behind the green screen this week on Intuit Vultures, Pop Culture Podcast.
0:36.3	We have to hope that this current political situation is not the permanent resting state
0:42.0	of American politics.
0:43.3	If this is what American government is going to look like hands forward, then we are going
0:47.4	to be a corrupt oligarchic regime, whatever we do in terms of the design of policy.
0:57.1	Hello and welcome to the Ezra Glanchion on Box Media Podcast Network.
1:07.6	Before we get into the show today, this is not an exact count, but depending on how you
1:12.5	count last week or this week or somewhere around here is the hundredth episode of this
1:17.2	podcast.
1:18.2	I'm not doing anything extremely profound to celebrate it because I am not good at
1:24.0	planning and did not get my act together in time.
1:27.0	But I do want to say that I'm really grateful to all of you to this.
1:31.1	Doing this podcast has been one of the really, really rewarding projects of my professional
1:35.6	career.
1:36.6	I've enjoyed it just really, really immensely.
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