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on the Bloomberg. Our guest right now is Luigi Zingales. He is Chicago Booth

Professor of Economics on Changes having to do with the tax overhaul

plan but Luigi always a pleasure and I just gonna say I'm gonna throw you one that with the I'm wondering if during your travels you see things that then change the way you apply your professional and academic skills to specific problems of economics because you're the author of two widely known books one is called

saving capitalism from the capitalist right and the other is a capitalism for the people

recapturing the lost genius of American prosperity.

And I'm wondering when you travel around the country, or indeed around the world,

what do you pick up that may apply to both of those themes?

Generally I learn more when I travel around the world

than around the US, but I do learn a lot.

So I remember many years ago I was in India

and I was taken by some friends to a government-owned store.

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