Michael and Us: PhD in Freakonomics
Jacobin Radio
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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
We're still not entirely sure what the mega-bestselling 2005 book "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" was about, but it seems to have had something to do with arguing that economics is all about incentives. The 2010 anthology film adaptation FREAKONOMICS explores this thin thesis across segments directed by such documentary legends as Eugene Jarecki, Alex Gibney, and (ugh) Morgan Spurlock... but its "counterintuitive" take on capitalism ends up reinforcing some ugly ideas. PLUS: the wacky institution that is the Canadian Senate, and the long right-wing preoccupation with postmodernism.
"How postmodernism became the universal scapegoat of the era" by Richard Seymour - https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2021/06/how-postmodernism-became-universal-scapegoat-era
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, before we begin today's show, just a quick reminder that Michael and us has |
| 0:08.6 | a lot more content available at patreon.com slash Michael and us. |
| 0:12.8 | We post an extra episode there every week, along with bonus content, including, though |
| 0:16.8 | not limited to interviews that I do in my day job, a recent highlight being my conversation |
| 0:21.8 | with the author and science fiction writer Corey Docturo, with whom I discussed Bill Gates. |
| 0:27.4 | And patreon episodes include an episode, an operation, coffee cup, and the LP once |
| 0:31.6 | recorded by Ronald Reagan attacking socialized medicine, and across over episode with |
| 0:36.4 | the Real Politics podcast, in which we discussed the Bruce Springsteen Barack Obama collab |
| 0:41.0 | Renegades. |
| 0:42.0 | A podcast I hear is almost as popular as ours. |
| 0:45.2 | You'll also get access to our full archive of well over a hundred past episodes. |
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| 0:53.2 | at patreon.com slash Michael and us. |
| 0:55.7 | We're very grateful to be able to partner with Jacob and Radio, so please don't miss |
| 0:59.6 | other great podcasts on the Jacob and Network, like the recently launched Primer, a labor |
| 1:04.0 | podcast about Amazon hosted by my colleague Alex Press. |
| 1:07.8 | Now without further ado, on with this week's free episode of Michael and us. |
| 1:24.2 | Welcome to Michael and us. |
| 1:25.2 | I'm Will Sloan. |
| 1:26.2 | Here is always with Luke Savage. |
| 1:27.8 | Hey everyone. |
| 1:28.8 | I got my second Vax earlier today. |
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