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What Are You Waiting For? (Rebroadcast)

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4.6 β€’ 32K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 10 August 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Standing in line represents a particularly sloppy β€” and frustrating β€” way for supply and demand to meet. Why haven't we found a better way to get what we want? Is it possible that we secretly enjoy waiting in line? And might it even be (gulp) good for us?

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0:00.0

Hey there podcast listeners, every year we gear up to produce a great set of episodes

0:10.5

for the fall and we need your help with one of them.

0:12.9

Steve Levitt and I will be recording one of our frequently asked questions episodes and

0:17.7

we need your questions.

0:19.6

So ask us anything you want.

0:21.8

Use your imagination.

0:23.1

You can send the questions to radio at freconomics.com in the subject line.

0:27.9

Please write FAQ if you'd prefer.

0:30.7

You could also record your question on your smartphone and send the audio file to that

0:34.4

same email address.

0:35.6

In any case, please tell us your first and last name where you live and what you do.

0:40.2

Thanks.

0:41.2

Now another thing we do every summer is give me and the freconomics radio crew a little

0:46.6

downtime.

0:47.6

So today we are bringing you one of our favorite and most popular episodes from the archive.

0:53.0

It's called What Are You Waiting For?

0:55.2

Hope you enjoy.

1:04.4

There are a lot of good ideas that people hate when you tell them about it.

1:09.5

That is Steve Landsberg.

1:11.0

I teach economics at the University of Rochester.

1:13.8

I write books about economics.

1:16.3

Books that apply an economic treatment to topics that don't usually get the economic

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