The Plague Cycle

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Business, Investing

4.1 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Charles Kenny, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, joins Felix Salmon and Emily Peck to talk about his new book The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease, vaccine distribution, and how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the global economy long term. Email: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the plague cycle edition of Slate Money,
0:18.0	your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week,
0:20.0	which is going to be very plague-centric this week. I'm Felix
0:25.3	Sammon of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck of Huffpost.
0:28.6	Hello. And we have the one and only Charles Kenny. Welcome Charles.
0:34.8	Hi.
0:35.8	Introduce yourself and tell me about the new book you have out.
0:39.8	My name's Charles Kenny.
0:41.8	Sorry you know that. I'm a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development,
0:46.2	which is a think tank in Washington, D.C. and the new book is called The Plague Cycle.
0:51.4	It's about how infectious disease has basically dominated the history of the planet.
0:58.7	Everything you see in the planet from which countries are rich and which countries are poor and
1:03.2	racial makeup and how men and women are structured comes back in some way to the
1:09.1	history of infectious disease.
1:10.6	It's a great book.
1:11.6	We're going to talk a bunch about that. We're going to talk about how COVID is changing things in terms of trade, in terms of migration, in terms of women's participation in the economy. We're going to talk about vaccines.
1:24.3	We're going to talk about how best to optimally
1:27.9	distribute them and how close we are to that.
1:30.5	We're going to have a whole Sleep Plus segment about IP in vaccines.
1:35.0	It's a fascinating conversation. I'm really happy with this one.
1:39.0	So do stay tuned for Charles Kenny's insights into everything
1:44.3	plague related coming up on slate money.
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