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Planet Money Summer School 2020
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Updated November 15, 2021
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- Introducing an economics education for your ears! We're calling it Planet Money Summer School. It's all the economics you meant to learn, but didn't get around to. Each Wednesday, we'll serve up a Planet Money story, or selection of excerpts, p
- First lesson: Economics is not about money. It's a lens of great power and beauty. In this episode, we meet our teachers and learn the first four fundamental concepts of economic thinking, and watch them applied to things like dating and hailin
- In our second class, we meet our old friends supply and demand and do graphs using only the power of the human voice. Then, we show you how markets can be created anywhere by telling the story of a food bank that had too many pickles and not en
- In our third class, we take all that we've learned about decisions and markets and bring it to a former drug kingpin. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
- Class 4 brings us an economic conundrum: how do you efficiently share a scarce resource? | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
- The economics of free trade and what happens when governments get involved. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
- The surprisingly entertaining history of the income tax. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
- A Black ad executive figures out how to reach diverse audiences.
- Inside one insurance policy is a world of incentives and bad behaviors. Take the final exam and get your diploma here.
- Summer School graduates take the stage to show us how we can all see our everyday world through the beautiful lens of economics. | Take the final exam and get your diploma here.
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