Earth 2.0: What Would Our Economy Look Like?

Season 6, Episode 37

This week on Freakonomics Radio: Stephen J. Dubner asks, “If we could reboot the planet and create new systems and institutions from scratch, what would that look like?”

This first installment of our Earth 2.0 series is about economics, of course! You’ll hear from Nobel laureate Angus Deaton, the poverty-fighting superhero Jeff Sachs; and many others.

To find out more, check out the podcasts from which this hour was drawn: “Earth 2.0: What Would Our Economy Look Like?” and “Earth 2.0: Is Income Inequality Inevitable?.”

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