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Slate Money - Optimal Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization

Slate Money - Optimal Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization

FromSlate News


Slate Money - Optimal Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization

FromSlate News

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Length:
41 minutes
Released:
Sep 9, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by Coco Krumme to discuss her book Optimal Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization. 

In the Plus segment: The story in Felix’s newsletter today on why the city of Birmingham in the UK has gone bankrupt.
 
Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.
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Released:
Sep 9, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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A quasi-daily podcast from Slate chronicling Donald Trump's rise to the presidency and his current administration. Journalists Virginia Heffernan and León Krauze talk to reporters, historians, psychiatrists, and other experts to help explain who this man is and why this is happening, right now, in the United States of America.