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Oct 2019
36m 28s

Amazon Under Attack, and Household Finan...

TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
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Youngme Moon , Felix Oberholzer-Gee , and Mihir Desai discuss the problem of household financial stress. They also debate whether current criticisms of Amazon are justified.

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You can email your comments and ideas for future episodes to: harvardafterhours@gmail.com. You can follow Youngme and Mihir on Twitter at: @YoungmeMoon and @DesaiMihirA.


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