Jodi Beggs: Kindergarten tycoon
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2014
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Jodi Beggs's mother greatly underestimates how well her kindergartener understands economics. Jodi Beggs is an economist and writer whose focus is on making economics accessible and interesting to both students and a general audience. Jodi is currently a lecturer at Northeastern University, where she teaches economics to both economics and music industry students. Jodi is also the Assistant Director of Research at Northeastern University's CREATE Center, where she conducts research in the music industry. Outside of the classroom, Jodi teaches economics on her web site "Economists Do It With Models," where she blogs about fun economics stuff and utilizes the online environment to make educational content freely available to students and non-students alike. Jodi has an A.M. in Economics from Harvard University as well as bachelors and masters degrees in computer science from MIT.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | It felt... |
| 0:07.0 | I felt... |
| 0:08.0 | I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment... |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | ... Hey everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to The Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:31.4 | This week's stories from Jody Beggs. |
| 0:33.3 | The story was recorded in December 2013 at Oberon in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 0:38.7 | The theme was, ouch. |
| 0:46.6 | So about five years ago, I decided that I want to get a tattoo. |
| 0:50.9 | Now, at the ripe old age of 29 at this point, I know that I'm kind of behind the curve with this a little bit |
| 0:57.0 | but I wanted to wait I wanted something that would be sort of clever meaningful I didn't just want to be that person that said oh look I got a dolphin on my ankle or I got the Chinese characters that I really think have some deep meeting but really say I'm a cheeseburger or something like that. |
| 1:12.8 | So I want to wait until this is the right thing. And I finally thought about something that seemed really awesome. |
| 1:18.6 | So like a good Cantabridgeon walked about a few blocks away from here to Camelion, the tattoo top right near the Harvard Square T-stop. And I go in and I explain |
| 1:30.9 | what I want. And to my surprise, the woman working at the desk said, no, I'm sorry, we can't do that. |
| 1:38.2 | Now, as an economist, I'm obviously both perplexed and frustrated by the apparent difficulty in conducting a mutually beneficial exchange of money for various goods and services. |
| 1:51.0 | So I'm like, no, no, no, I'm going to push this a little bit further. |
| 1:55.0 | So I said, well, okay, well, why not? |
| 1:59.0 | And the explanation that I got was that they wouldn't do tattoos on someone |
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