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Sep 2024
1h 30m

Fetishizing Jobs

ANDREW HEATON
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What if we're focusing on jobs too much?

Guy Standing is the author of "The Politics of Time: Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty."

He joins to discuss laborism, why GDP is a stupid economic indicator, and solutions to the economy's most vexing problems. 

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