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Wanna listen to a financial noob summarize great economic literature? You don't? Okay, see ya around.

Brennan Harris

  • Jan 19, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
  • infrequent NEW EPISODES
  • 14m AVG DURATION
  • 7 EPISODES


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The Wealth of Nations - Chapter VIII

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2020 12:14


How wages are determined; Adam Smith: the bleeding heart; intro from Ha-Joon Chang (https://youtu.be/6f5QgOO5otc), outro from Anand Giridharadas (https://youtu.be/axN8ppre-mU)

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The Wealth of Nations - Chapters V through VII

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2019 18:53


Labor value vs money value; wage, profit, and rent; supply and demand pricing, natural vs market price. Intro and outro from the Comedy Bang Bang podcast.

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The Wealth of Nations - Chapters III and IV

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2019 17:35


Get that MONEY!!! ... and transportation. Intro and outro by Alan Watts (https://youtu.be/nQirNLiVL9w). Andrew Yang on the JRE (https://youtu.be/cTsEzmFamZ8). Yuval Noah Harari addressing the RSA (https://youtu.be/zen-m0rMp4I).

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The Wealth of Nations - Chapter II

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2019 12:21


Send intro ideas into basispointpodcast@gmail.com for some CHOCOLATE GOLD COINZZZ!!! Check out cellular automaton on Wikipedia and Robert Sapolsky's Stanford lecture on emergence on YouTube.

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The Wealth of Nations - Chapter I

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2019 19:56


Of the Division of Labor - making pins, making nails, trading surplus swag.

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The Wealth of Nations - Introduction

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2019 18:04


History and context behind the publication of the book. A sample from the intro. Sampled audio from Steven Pinker's interview on the JRE podcast. Find MacAskill's book Doing Good Better, on Amazon. Email me at brennankharris@gmail.com

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Welcome

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2019 4:36


Welcome! Here's a quick intro to the podcast and what I'll be reading for the next little while: The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

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