Moochers, monopolists and market-based poverty help
Episode
9 min
Read time
2 min
Topics
Economics & Policy, History
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What It Covers
NPR Indicator hosts compete in economics trivia covering free rider problems, antitrust history, Pigouvian taxes, automatic stabilizers, and negative income tax concepts.
Notable Moment
Woods answers all five economics questions correctly within seconds, including identifying Standard Oil's 1911 antitrust case and Arthur Cecil Pigou's taxation theory.
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