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Hello, welcome to the generations edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business, finance, and other news of the week.

I'm Felix Salmon.

I'm joined by Anna Shemansky and Jordan Weissman and Malcolm Harris.

Malcolm Harris, welcome.

Thanks for having me.

You're here to plug a book.

Absolutely, as many times as possible.

Well, you get to do it once, up top.

Fair enough.

What is it?

It's kids these days, human capital and the making of millennials.

It's out from Little Brown, wherever fine books are sold.

And you put the word millennials in your subtitles. Well,

you went there. I did. I, I'm a, I like millennials as a, both as a cohort and as a word.

Because, you know, there are certain places like fusion, which banned the word years ago on the

grounds that it was, it conceals more than it reveals and that

there's not much you can actually usefully say about this generation.

Actually, let's just jump into this because this is, your book, correct me if I'm wrong,

is basically predicated on the idea that there is something you can usefully say about this

entire generation and that they are different in some important ways from previous generations

and that like looking at those differences can be illuminating.

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