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We tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable lessons, but these Cautionary Tales are for the education of the grown ups – and they are all true. Tim Harford (Financial Times, BBC, author of “The Data Detective”) brings you stories of awful human error, tragic catastrophes, and hilarious fiascos. They'll delight you, scare you, but also make you wiser. New episodes every Friday.
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Michael Greenstone knows it’s corny, but he wants to make the world a better place — by tracking the impact of air quality, developing pollution markets in India, and … starting a podcast, which Steve says proves he’s over the hill.
- SOURCES:
- Michael Greenstone, professor of economics at the University of Chicago.
- RESOURCES:
- "New evidence on the impact of sustained exposure to air pollution on life expectancy from China's Huai River Policy," by Avraham Ebenstein, Maoyong Fan, Michael Greenstone, Guojun He, and Maigeng Zhou (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017).
- "Evidence on the impact of sustained exposure to air pollution on life expectancy from China's Huai River policy," by Yuyu Chen, Avraham Ebenstein, Michael Greenstone, and Hongbin Li (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013).
- Shocked, podcast.
- Air Quality Life Index (AQLI).
- Emissions Market Accelerator.
- Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF).
- EXTRAS:
- "This Is Your Brain on Pollution," by Freakonomics Radio (2021).
- "The Simple Economics of Saving the Amazon Rainforest", by People I (Mostly) Admire (2020).
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