On today’s show, a North American economist and the chief of staff to a foreign president fall in love with the same idea. It’s an idea they think can solve one of the oldest, hardest problems in economics: How can poor countries get richer?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/11/09/164813887/episode-415-can-a-poor-country-start-over
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When you walk around a big city in China, it feels like an entrepreneurial free-for-all â guys selling stuff on street corners, lots of little shops, everybody hustling. But when you pull back the curtain on the country’s economy, you find the government everywhere…
http://podcast.co.uk/npr-planet-money-podcast-is-chinas-economy-genius-or-bound-for-disaster/
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How do you make money manufacturing a dry, bland cracker that a tiny percentage of the population eats just one week a year?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/04/10/150368897/the-matzo-economy?ft=1&f=93559255
An airline, the price of oil and the financialization of the global economy. On today’s show, author and former banker Satyajit Das talks about his career and the trouble with the rise of finance.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/09/30/140954343/the-friday-podcast-how-money-got-weird
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