Slate Money - The Economists' Hour
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
New York Times writer Binyamin Appelbaum joins Slate Money to discuss his new book The Economists' Hour,the concept of putting a dollar value on a human life and the NBA’s whole thing with China.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Economist's Our Edition of Slate Money or guide to the Business and Finance News of the week. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. |
| 0:22.1 | I am joined as ever by Emily Peck of Huff Post. |
| 0:26.2 | Hello. |
| 0:27.2 | By Anna Shemansky of Breaking Views. |
| 0:30.2 | Hello. |
| 0:31.1 | And rather excitingly, I am joined here. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm in Washington, D.C. this week, and I'm joined in his hometown by Benjamin |
| 0:39.9 | Applebaum of the New York Times. |
| 0:41.5 | Hi. |
| 0:42.2 | You are here to plug a book. |
| 0:44.1 | I'm here to plug a book. |
| 0:45.0 | What's the book? |
| 0:45.8 | It's called The Economists Hour. |
| 0:47.9 | And it's a fast-paced, exciting, thrilling history of the role of economists in public policy. |
| 0:53.7 | If you only read one book about the role of economists in public policy. If you only read one book about the role of economists in public policy this year, make it this one. |
| 0:59.7 | No, it really do. |
| 1:00.7 | It's got some great stuff in it, and we're going to touch on a bunch of stuff in the book in this episode. |
| 1:07.2 | We are going to talk broadly about economists and whether they have made the world |
| 1:11.6 | better or worse. We're going to talk about the value of a human life and how you can put a |
| 1:18.5 | dollar amount on it. And we are actually going to give you a dollar amount. So if you listen to |
| 1:21.9 | this episode, you will find out how much your life is worth. And we are, you know, service journalism, |
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