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The Economics of Life From Baseball to Affirmative Action to Immigration, How Real-World Issues Affect Our Everday Life

Gary S. Becker

Collects the best of the economist's "Business Week" column

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

It was read by the podcast guest when he was 24. He described it as unreal, changing his reality by showing how topics like poverty could be understood through numbers, graphs, and models rather than just stories.

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One, I read a book by Gary Becker, The Economics of Life When I was 24 years old And he would take any given topic like poverty Something that would be non...

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Episode: The Anti-Ageing Expert: "I Have The Erection Of An...

It was read by the podcast guest when he was 24. He described it as unreal, changing his reality by showing how topics like poverty could be understood through numbers, graphs, and models rather than just stories.

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One, I read a book by Gary Becker, The Economics of Life When I was 24 years old And he would take any given topic like poverty Something that would be non...

It's just like this social phenomena that I would have previously heard someone tell me a story about And he would break them down using economics And I thought, that's unreal A world understood through numbers and graphs and models

Not through stories, no one's going to tell me any story, they're just going to lay this out Now I realize that there are limitations of course to those things Like stories are embedded in those to some extent

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