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What’s the trick in trickle-down? (with Yuval Noah Harari and Molly Crockett)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer - December 24, 2019 08:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
What is the “trick” in “trickle down” economics? It’s how wealthy elites and their neoliberal lackeys convince you that what’s good for them (tax cuts, deregulation, etc.) is good for you… and that policies like the minimum wage, overtime, and paid sick leave will ruin the economy. Economics is a...

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What is the trick in trickle down? (with Yuval Harari and Molly Crockett)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer - December 25, 2018 20:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
What is the “trick” in “trickle down” economics? It’s how wealthy elites and their neoliberal lackeys convince you that what’s good for them (tax cuts, deregulation, etc.) is good for you… and that policies like the minimum wage, overtime, and paid sick leave will ruin the economy. Economics is a...

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Molly Crockett (Ep. 45): The neuroscience of social media outrage

Rad Awakenings with Khe Hy - April 26, 2018 14:02 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratings
What's happening in our brains as we mindlessly scroll social media? Or worse, when we angrily retweet posts from our tribe. Molly Crockett is an assistant psychology professor at Yale University, where she integrates classic social psychology with neuroscience. She explains how our brain's rewar...

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Episode 134: Digital Outrage (with Molly Crockett)

Very Bad Wizards - February 27, 2018 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.5K ratings
It's been 5 years since Molly Crockett has been guest on VBW. During that time she's completed a post-doc at University College, London and become a professor at Yale University. And we're...well, we're still doing the podcast. Today Molly joins us to talk about moral outrage in the age of socia...

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Episode 20: Boston, Brains, and Bad Pronunciation (with Molly Crockett)

Very Bad Wizards - April 21, 2013 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.5K ratings
Dave and Tamler begin with a brief, heartfelt discussion about the Boston Bombings.  Tamler talks about why Patriots' Day and the Boston Marathon mean so much to a kid growing up in Boston.  They speculate a bit about the motive behind the attack and ask why the perpetrators didn't come out and ...

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Molly Crockett on Brain Chemistry and Moral Decision-Making (originally on Bioethics Bites)

Philosophy Bites - July 22, 2012 20:08 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.5K ratings
Can moral decision-making be affected by chemical means? And if so, should we use drugs for this purpose? Molly Crockett's research in this area is the basis of this Philosophy Bites interview which was originally released on Bioethics Bites and made in association with the Uehiro Centre for Pra...