Marian Goodell on Burning Man

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🗓️ 29 January 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Marian Goodell, CEO of the Burning Man Project, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Burning Man, the 8-day art and music festival in the Nevada Desert. Goodell explains how Burning Man has evolved over the years, the principles and rules that govern the experience today, and plans for expanding the Burning Man experience around the world.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.1	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:12.7	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:17.6	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:20.6	We'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going
0:24.9	back to 2006.
0:27.1	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:29.6	We'd love to hear from you.
0:33.8	Before introducing today's guest, I want to remind listeners, you have a few more days
0:37.2	to vote on your favorite episodes of 2017.
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0:45.2	corner, you'll find a link to the survey there.
0:48.0	Today is January 11th, 2018, and my guest is Maryanne Goudelle.
0:52.5	She is founding board member and CEO of the Burning Man Project.
0:56.8	Maryanne, welcome to econtalk.
0:59.8	Thank you.
1:00.8	What is Burning Man?
1:02.8	It's an incredible phenomenon, but a number of people I suspected my listeners' ship
1:07.2	have never heard of it, have no idea what it is.
1:11.0	Burning Man is usually known most quickly and easily by people as a large event in the Nevada
1:19.9	desert that has over 75,000 people attending.
1:24.8	They're there for eight days, the last week of August, and it's just north of Reno, Nevada.
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