Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

Wish you were here.

Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts.

This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

I'm John Batcher, welcoming Thaddeus Macotter at writing

in American Greatness, Economy published during Easter, and he and I were not able to arrange

to talk about it that day, so this is an opportunity coming

the end of April to return to the consumptive economy.

The understanding is people who run major corporations describe America as a globalized

consumer economy, globalized supply chain and prices.

Chiefly, we're talking about China.

However, Thaddeus's remark is that a productive economy has become a consumptive,

consumptive economy.

That is a very good evening to you. How did this happen and

what is a consumptive economy? Thank you. Good evening to you, John. Well I live in

Detroit. It was born in 1965, the front end of Gen X,

at the peak of Detroit's powers, you could argue.

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