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Aug 2020
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S E1: Why Should You Think Like an Econo...

Betsey Stevenson & Justin Wolfers
About this episode

Want to make ‘no regrets decisions’? This podcast will teach you how! Betsey Stevenson and

Justin Wolfers are on a mission to equip everyone with key tools from economics that can

truly transform your life: from career dilemmas and financial conundrums to sorting out

complicated problems in your personal life, economics will help you. Let’s get stuck in.

Co-host: Nastaran Tavakoli-Far. Editor: Alastair Elphick. A Modulated Media production.

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