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#79 Planet Money: Emily Oster Decodes The World

#79 Planet Money: Emily Oster Decodes The World

Planet Money vor 17 Jahren

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Some days, you just have to wonder why the world is the way it is. Emily Oster is making a career out of training the lens of economics on just that question.

Oster talks about her economic of analysis of AIDS and risky behavior in Africa, and she answers a riddle from a Planet Money listener. That riddle: Why, when prices are flat or falling, are restaurants piling more food on our plates?