The Dismal Science

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February 01, 2009

How did our economists miss it? We're in a full-on economic crisis. Where was the warning? In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at the so-called dismal science. We'll talk with the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Economics on why the alarm bells never rang. And, why is it that drug dealers, with all the money they make, still live with their moms? For that answer and more, we'll apply Freakonomics.

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March 02, 2023