Basis Point: Recent Episodes
Brennan Harris
Wanna listen to a financial noob summarize great economic literature? You don't? Okay, see ya around.
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)
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.
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).
Send intro ideas into basispointpodcast@gmail.com for some CHOCOLATE GOLD COINZZZ!!! Check out cellular automaton on Wikipedia and Robert Sapolsky's Stanford lecture on emergence on YouTube.
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 brennankharris@gmail.com
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