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#436: If Economists Controlled The Borders
1 Feb 8th, 2017 19m 35s
What would the perfect immigration system look like? We ask three economists and get three very different answers. (None of which include building a wall.)
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#723: The Risk Farmers
1 Sep 7th, 2016 20m 35s
There is a mystery in many poor countries. Why don't farmers specialize and grow more food? Two economists with very different theories go head to head to find out.
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#510: The Birth Of The Minimum Wage
2 Feb 11th, 2015 16m 53s
Note: Today's show is a rerun. It originally ran in January 2014. For most of U.S. history, there was no minimum wage. A few times, politicians passed laws tiptoeing toward a minimum. But the Supreme Court struck those laws down. On today's sho
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The Fondue Conspiracy
2 May 2nd, 2018 16m 41s
Today on the show: How a cheese cartel abandoned the rules of economics and convinced the world to eat fondue.
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If Teens Ran the Fed
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1 Nov 3rd, 2017 16m 25s
Once a year, teenagers from across the country team up and compete to run the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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North Korea's Capitalists
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1 Oct 14th, 2017 24m 25s
Capitalism isn't supposed to exist in North Korea. But all over the country, small businesses are popping up, growing the nation's economy. And much of that money is going straight to the country's nuclear program.
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