Why are so many autocrats germaphobes? Why was the truth so dangerous for Soviet engineers? And what can salami reveal to us about the mind of Vladimir Putin?
This is the first of two special episodes in partnership with HBO's new series "The Regime". Tim Harford investigates real-life dictatorships and the social science that explains them, drawing on insights from game theory and psychology.
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03/29/24 • 42 min
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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford - Inside the Bizarre World of Dictators
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Pushkin. This episode of Cautionary Tales was made an association with HBO and their new series The Regime. You can stream The Regime now on Max and you can find more episodes of this show Cautionary Tales wherever you get your podcasts. On the first of March twenty fourteen, the BBC journalist John Simpson hailed a taxi with his cameraman in Ukraine. The BBC had told them to go to Crimea, the southern peninsula sticking out into the Black Sea. S
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