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The life and work of Leonard Wantchekon
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06/23/22 • 68 min
As a young man in his native Benin, Leonard Wantchekon was arrested for leading a student uprising against the repressive government, tortured in prison, and 18 months later escaped from prison into Nigeria.
Nearly four decades later, he is now a Princeton economist and the founder of the African School of Economics. But the experiences and observations from his astonishing early life embedded themselves into his work in economics—not just his research, but his mission to educate a new generation of African economists.
Leonard speaks with Cardiff about those formative events, and then they discuss the following research papers published by Leonard:
— “Education and Human Capital Externalities: Evidence from Colonial Benin” [Co-authored with Marko Klasˇnja and Natalija Novta]
— “The Curse of Good Soil? Land Fertility, Roads, and Rural Poverty in Africa” [Co-authored with Piero Stanig]
— “The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa” [Co-authored with Nathan Nunn]
And they also discuss Leonard's goals as founder of The African School of Economics, and why it's so important for African students economists to be taken more seriously inside the economics profession.
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A story of poker and risk
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08/26/21 • 57 min
A few years ago, Maria Konnikova took a leave from her job as a psychology journalist at The New Yorker to try something new: become a professional poker player. Hoping merely for a good story to write about, she stunned everyone -- including herself -- with her accelerated mastery of the game, winning big tournaments and earning hundreds of thousands of dollars within just the first couple of years. Maria joins Cardiff to discuss what she learned in the process about her own psychological makeup, her capacity for change, and how we can all take lessons from poker to make better decisions. It’s the subject of her latest book, The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, And Win, which is now available in paperback.
Links from the episode:
- Maria Konnikova is on Twitter at @mkonnikova
- Maria’s book, The Biggest Bluff (https://tinyurl.com/kexnvd4n)
- “Remembering Walter Mischel, with Love and Procrastination” in The New Yorker (https://tinyurl.com/zrbae2xx)
- Maria’s writing in The New Yorker (https://tinyurl.com/y8n88yy8)
- Cardiff and Aimee are on Twitter at @CardiffGarcia and @AimeePKeane
- Send us an email! You can write to us at hello@bazaaraudio.com
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The meaning of gentrification
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09/23/21 • 65 min
Gentrification is a trend that can be confusing, contentious, and widely misunderstood. Perhaps most surprisingly, gentrification can offer “the promise of integration and sorely needed investment that can increase residents’ quality of life — but only if disadvantaged residents are set up to take part in the benefits of increased investment." Thus argues Jerusalem Demsas, policy reporter at Vox. In a wide-ranging conversation, she takes Cardiff through the research and academic literature on gentrification, explaining the nuances and complexities that are so often missing in debates about this controversial trend.
Links from the episode:
- Jerusalem is on Twitter at @JerusalemDemsas
- “What we talk about when we talk about gentrification”, by Jerusalem Demsas (https://tinyurl.com/2kpasxn7)
- All of Jerusalem’s Vox articles (https://tinyurl.com/3sjvp3dc)
- Cardiff and Aimee are on Twitter at @CardiffGarcia and @AimeePKeane
- Send us an email! You can write to us at hello@bazaaraudio.com
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The great turnaround
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08/12/21 • 58 min
Economist Peter Blair Henry has dedicated his career to understanding how a developing country can become more prosperous, lift more people out of poverty, and give its citizens better choices for how to work and live. He joins Cardiff to share his findings on this question from “The Baker Hypothesis”, a newly published paper he co-authored with Anusha Chari and Hector Reyes. Peter also gives his thoughts on the “degrowth” movement, the tricky balance between market-friendly policies and the role of government, and the evolution of economics. Finally, he shares his own personal experience of an economic catastrophe in his native Jamaica, which forced his family to uproot when he was young and sent him down this career path.
Links from the episode:
- Peter Blair Henry is on Twitter at @PeterBlairHenry
- The Baker Hypothesis: Stabilization, Structural Reforms, and Economic Growth (https://tinyurl.com/4ykzcn59)
- Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth (https://tinyurl.com/r9asz5xn)
- Cardiff and Aimee are also on Twitter at @CardiffGarcia and @AimeePKeane
- Send us an email! You can write to use at hello@bazaaraudio.com
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Introducing The New Bazaar
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08/06/21 • 1 min
A new podcast about how the economy shapes our lives. The first episode will be available on Thursday, August 12. See you then!
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A short history of longer life
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09/16/21 • 45 min
For almost all of human history and pre-history -- going back tens of thousands of years -- the average human life expectancy was about 35 years or less. Steven Johnson, author of the new book Extra Life, describes this fact as The Long Ceiling. But something changed a few hundred years ago. A series of public health innovations started arriving in batches, each innovation building on the success of another, that finally began extending our average life expectancy to where it is now, at more than 70 years. Steven explains to Cardiff why these innovations began so late in the human experience, the institutions and public remedies needed for their benefits to spread, and what lessons they hold for the Covid era.
Links from the episode:
- Steven Johnson is on Twitter at @stevenbjohnson
- Steven’s website
- Extra Life, the book (https://tinyurl.com/yfksrh82)
- Extra Life, the PBS series (https://tinyurl.com/3hbk3sb7)
- The Ghost Map (https://tinyurl.com/5t48e5vy)
- Cardiff and Aimee are on Twitter at @CardiffGarcia and @AimeePKeane
- Send us an email! You can write to us at hello@bazaaraudio.com
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Identity in America
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08/19/21 • 48 min
Mark Hugo Lopez is the director of race and ethnicity research at Pew Research Center. He and his colleagues recently conducted a sweeping survey about how Americans identify their racial, ethnic and foreign country origins.The results show that how we see ourselves isn’t fixed. It fluctuates and evolves -- revealing that identity can be as much a function of how we measure it as how we regard ourselves in a given moment. Cardiff and Mark also discuss immigration trends, how American views on diversity have changed over time, and even a little bit of politics.
Links from the episode:
- Mark Hugo Lopez is on Twitter at @MHugoLopez
- Pew Research identity report (https://tinyurl.com/y7mv3zn5)
- The growing diversity of black America (https://tinyurl.com/823dm2su)
- Census on race and ethnicity measures (https://tinyurl.com/h2696u3j)
- Mark's book recommendation, Bless Me, Ultima (https://tinyurl.com/zeyw7stu)
- Cardiff and Aimee are on Twitter at @CardiffGarcia and @AimeePKeane
- Send us an email! You can write to us at hello@bazaaraudio.com
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Machiavelli’s guide for women at work
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09/30/21 • 57 min
Stacey Vanek Smith is the author of the new book, Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace. She is also Cardiff’s former co-host on The Indicator from Planet Money! The two hosts reunite for this special episode, in which Stacey tells Cardiff about the hardheaded wisdom and encouragement she finds in Machiavelli, the economic data and case studies showing the particular set of obstacles that women confront at the office, and why professional advancement requires an understanding of the world as it is, not as we wish it were.
Links from the episode:
- Stacey is on Twitter at @svaneksmith
- Machiavelli for Women (https://tinyurl.com/5cun5du7)
- The Indicator from Planet Money (https://tinyurl.com/4a8pa2cj)
- Cardiff and Aimee are on Twitter at @CardiffGarcia and @AimeePKeane
- Send us an email! You can write to us at hello@bazaaraudio.com
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When talent is no longer wasted
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10/07/21 • 44 min
In 1960, only six percent of all the doctors and lawyers in the country were either women (of all races and ethnicities) or men of color. All the rest -- the overwhelming majority -- were white men. Fast forward half a century. By the year 2010, women and nonwhite men were 38 percent of doctors and lawyers. A similar integration occurred in other high-paying professions that required college and post-graduate degrees.
According to a paper by economist Chang-Tai Hsieh and his co-authors, this deepening integration accounted for an astonishing 40 percent of the per-capita economic growth in the country during this period. Like much of Chang-Tai’s other work, this paper is about what happens when people are finally able to apply their talents in ways that best take advantage of those talents -- and what a tragedy it is, for all of us, when they can’t.
And that’s why this story is not entirely a happy one. Mainly because there is so much progress that is still left to be made. But also because the progress that was being made appears to be slowing down. And for some people, it might even be reversing.
Links from the episode:
- “The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth” (https://tinyurl.com/988c6a8)
- “Housing Constraints and Spatial Misallocation” (https://tinyurl.com/wcyh3mtd)
- Chang-Tai Hsieh’s research page (https://tinyurl.com/n86tufvs)
- Cardiff and Aimee are on Twitter at @CardiffGarcia and @AimeePKeane
- Send us an email! You can write to us at hello@bazaaraudio.com
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Our inescapable experiences
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09/02/21 • 71 min
Ulrike Malmendier is the premier economic scholar for understanding how our experiences affect our decisions, even in ways we might not recognize. Ulrike joins Cardiff to discuss the nuances and applications of her research, including why daily habits like grocery shopping affect our expectations for the economy; how the crises we live through determine the extent of our lifetime participation in financial markets; and how policymakers at the Federal Reserve are just as susceptible to the effects of their experiences as the rest of us are to our own. Plus, Ulrike offers an optimistic view on how our future decision-making might be transformed by the pandemic.
Links from the episode:
- Ulrike Malmendier is on Twitter at @umalmend
- Ulrike’s research (https://tinyurl.com/eyv99d4a)
- Ulrike’s AEA/AFRA Joint Lecture (https://tinyurl.com/9x94f8jr)
- Cardiff and Aimee are on Twitter at @CardiffGarcia and @AimeePKeane
- Send us an email! You can write to us at hello@bazaaraudio.com
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How many episodes does The New Bazaar have?
The New Bazaar currently has 57 episodes available.
What topics does The New Bazaar cover?
The podcast is about Economics, Business and Society & Culture.
What is the most popular episode on The New Bazaar?
The episode title 'The life and work of Leonard Wantchekon' is the most popular with 1 listens and 1 ratings.
What is the average episode length on The New Bazaar?
The average episode length on The New Bazaar is 59 minutes.
How often are episodes of The New Bazaar released?
Episodes of The New Bazaar are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of The New Bazaar?
The first episode of The New Bazaar was released on Aug 6, 2021.
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