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    Esther Duflo wants you to think like a plumber

    Esther Duflo wants you to think like a plumber

    FromReThinking

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    Esther Duflo wants you to think like a plumber

    FromReThinking

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    Length:
    57 minutes
    Released:
    Nov 9, 2021
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    When Esther Duflo took her first economics class, she hated it. In 2019, she won a Nobel Prize in economics. Esther talks with Adam about her groundbreaking experiments to fight poverty, busts myths about what motivates people, and reveals how to make meaningful progress toward solving daunting problems. Read the text transcript for this episode at go.ted.com/T4G24
    Released:
    Nov 9, 2021
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    As an organizational psychologist, Adam Grant loves to rethink ideas that we’ve taken for granted. In this special series from WorkLife with Adam Grant, he brings curiosity and science to conversations with his favorite thinkers about the opinions and assumptions we should all be revisiting. Listen in—you might just be inspired to walk away from some of your old views and embrace some new ones.