Paul Krugman: Economics of Innovation, Automation, Safety Nets & Universal Basic Income
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<p>Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize winner in economics, professor at CUNY, and columnist at the New York Times. His academic work centers around international economics, economic geography, liquidity traps, and currency crises.</p>
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<p>Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.</p>
<p>00:00 – Introduction<br />
03:44 – Utopia from an economics perspective<br />
04:51 – Competition<br />
06:33 – Well-informed citizen<br />
07:52 – Disagreements in economics<br />
09:57 – Metrics of outcomes<br />
13:00 – Safety nets<br />
15:54 – Invisible hand of the market<br />
21:43 – Regulation of tech sector<br />
22:48 – Automation<br />
25:51 – Metric of productivity<br />
30:35 – Interaction of the economy and politics<br />
33:48 – Universal basic income<br />
36:40 – Divisiveness of political discourse<br />
42:53 – Economic theories<br />
52:25 – Starting a system on Mars from scratch<br />
55:11 – International trade<br />
59:08 – Writing in a time of radicalization and Twitter mobs</p>