Slate Money - The Hot Mess Edition
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, data scientist and author of Weapons of Math Destruction, Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann talks to English economist and author of Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives, Tim Harford.
Topics discussed on today’s show include:
-Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives by Tim Harford.
-Warren Buffett's Taxes
-Contract Theory in the wake of the Nobel Prize awarded.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:07.9 | Hello, and welcome to the Hot Mess edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:18.3 | I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion. We have the whole team here. We have Kathy O'Neill, |
| 0:24.9 | the author of Weapons of Math Destruction, the National Book Award long-listed amazing tome. |
| 0:31.3 | Hello. We have Jordan Weissman, who was not drowned in Orlando and is back safe and sound in sunny Brooklyn. |
| 0:38.9 | I'm back, baby. |
| 0:40.0 | And most excitingly, we have the best writer of books in the history of authoredom. |
| 0:46.7 | It's true. |
| 0:47.6 | Mr. Tim Harford. |
| 0:49.0 | Hello, Felix. |
| 0:50.0 | Hello, Tim. |
| 0:51.3 | You have written how many books? |
| 0:53.9 | This is number six. When I say this, I mean messy, the power of disorder to transform our lives. |
| 1:01.2 | He knows how to be book touring. We got that in, didn't we? |
| 1:04.9 | We, we, don't worry. Don't worry, Tim. We are going to talk about messy, the power of disorder to transform our lives very soon on Slate Money. But first of all, like, just tell us who you are. |
| 1:18.3 | I'm a columnist for the Financial Times. For the last 10 years, I have been writing a column called the undercover Economist every Saturday. And that's a column about economic ideas all around us in |
| 1:29.1 | everyday life, along with the other five books, several of which are variants on the undercover |
| 1:35.2 | economist title. And I also present a couple of shows for the BBC, one called More or Less, |
| 1:41.7 | which is about statistics in everyday life. We've interviewed Kathy about her wonderful book. |
| 1:47.7 | And there's a new one coming, the 50 things that shaped the modern economy. |
| 1:52.0 | That's coming in a few weeks. |
| 1:53.2 | 50. |
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