Slate Money - The Development Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2016
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Slate Money, Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O'Neil of mathbabe.org, and Slate's Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann are joined by special guest William Easterly, Professor of Economics at New York University, and the author of The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor. They dig into:
• The realities of the developing world
• Poor and displaced populations
• The World Bank
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Email: slatemoney@slate.com
Twitter: @Felix salmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann
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| 1:10.4 | Hello, and welcome to the development edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news and issues of the weekday year century. |
| 1:24.9 | We're taking a big picture look this week at global development and basically |
| 1:30.8 | how the world has been getting better or whether the world has been getting better and what |
| 1:36.1 | people, various different people in the world are going to do about it or have been doing about |
| 1:39.6 | it. I am Felix Salmon of Fusion. I am joined as always by Kathy O'Neill, the data scientist and blogger at Mathbabe.org. |
| 1:50.2 | Hi. |
| 1:51.0 | Hi, Kathy. |
| 1:51.6 | I am joined as always by Slate's Moneybox columnist, Jordan Weissman. |
| 1:55.9 | Hello, everyone. |
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