The Marriage Edition

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2015

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Slate Money, Quartz writer and author of It's Not You, It's the Dishes, Jenny Anderson, joins host Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org, and Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann to talk about how economic principles can solve your relationship conflicts. Topics discussed on today’s show include: There is no economic reason for marriage. The law of competitive advantage says you don't have to split dish-washing duties. Is it ever economically rationale to have an affair? Slate Money is sponsored by Harry's, the shaving company that offers German-engineered blades, well-designed handles, and free shipping right to your door. The Harry's starter kit is just 15 bucks. And right now, visit Harrys.com for $5 off your first purchase with the promo code money. That's Harrys.com and the promo code money. Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.5	Hello! I can tell you this is the best edition of Slate Money you will ever listen to.
1:05.4	I'm telling you that right now.
1:06.9	I'm Felix Salmon.
1:08.6	This is the Marriage Edition of Slate Money and I can barely even get started because we're all blathering away here at the table because we have
1:16.0	The best group of podcasters the world has ever seen assembled in the same room
1:27.0	There's Kathy O'Neill, the data scientist and blogger at mathbabe.org. I don't know if I can live up to the hype here.
1:29.0	There's Jordan Weisman, the Moneybox columnist at Slate. I kind of like to picture us as like the
1:34.5	Avengers of Podcast. I really want like Felix to be Black Widow though in this.
1:40.8	Thing, I'm the thing. you've never seen me like this and most importantly the
1:45.9	catalyst who is going to take this ragtaggle group of money broadcasters and turn us into something unbelievably awesome.
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