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Basis Point

7 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings

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

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Episodes

The Wealth of Nations - Chapter VIII

January 19, 2020 06:07 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MB

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)

The Wealth of Nations - Chapters V through VII

May 19, 2019 06:25 - 18 minutes - 26 MB

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.

The Wealth of Nations - Chapters III and IV

February 22, 2019 08:24 - 17 minutes - 24.2 MB

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).

The Wealth of Nations - Chapter II

February 09, 2019 08:49 - 12 minutes - 17 MB

Send intro ideas into [email protected] for some CHOCOLATE GOLD COINZZZ!!! Check out cellular automaton on Wikipedia and Robert Sapolsky's Stanford lecture on emergence on YouTube.

The Wealth of Nations - Chapter I

February 01, 2019 07:22 - 19 minutes - 36.5 MB

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

The Wealth of Nations - Introduction

January 19, 2019 19:18 - 18 minutes - 24.8 MB

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 [email protected]

Welcome

January 03, 2019 08:51 - 4 minutes - 6.33 MB

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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