Aug 21, 2019
Which historical figures do you respect? Which economic concepts should be taught to children? How do you trust statistics? James Harrigan and Antony Davies take questions from the crowd on topics ranging from incentives to trade-offs to research data to US treasury bills and more in this week’s episode of Words & Numbers.
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Quick hits
Birth rates dropping
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7312075/Birth-rate-England-Wales-hits-80-YEAR-low.html
Noam Chomsky
https://truthout.org/articles/noam-chomsky-life-expectancy-in-the-us-is-declining-for-a-reason
Foolishness of the week
Robot racism
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/01/tech/robot-racism-scn-trnd/index.html
Topic of the week: Listener questions
Milton Friedman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EwaLys3Zak
F.A. Hayek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnMd40dqBlQ
FRED: Federal Reserve data
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Pew Research
Gallup
https://www.gallup.com/home.aspx
United Nations Development Programme
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