Summer School 8: Big ideas and life lessons from Marx, Keynes and Smith and more
Planet Money
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4.6 • 29.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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We are assembled here on the lawn of Planet Money University for the greatest graduation in history – because it features the greatest economic minds in history. We'll hear from Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and some surprising guests as they teach us a little bit more economics, and offer a lot of life advice.
But first, we have to wrap up our (somewhat) complete economic history of the world. We'll catch up on the last fifty years or so of human achievement and ask ourselves, has economics made life better for us all?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Planet Money from NPR. |
| 0:04.0 | Graduating class of Planet Money Summer School 2024, |
| 0:12.0 | Professors, parents, Planet Money Summer School 2024. |
| 0:12.8 | Professors, parents, welcome to your commencement ceremony |
| 0:16.6 | for your master's degree in the economic history of the world. |
| 0:21.1 | We stand here on the great lawn of Planet Money University, a place that only exists |
| 0:26.7 | in our minds, yet a place we return to every summer, with a sincere desire to learn a bunch of facts that we can amuse |
| 0:35.4 | our friends and family with during backyard barbecues. Today on the show |
| 0:39.7 | The Greatest Grad graduation in history |
| 0:43.0 | because it features the greatest economic minds in history. |
| 0:47.0 | We'll hear from Adam Smith, |
| 0:50.0 | Carl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, |
| 0:52.0 | and some surprising guests as they provide a little bit of economics |
| 0:56.7 | and a lot of life advice. |
| 0:59.7 | It's been 5,000 years in the making. |
| 1:02.1 | This is lesson 8 today and beyond. |
| 1:06.8 | I'm Robert Smith. |
| 1:08.7 | While our graduation speakers are putting on their robes |
| 1:11.3 | and sneaking extra glasses of champagne. |
| 1:14.0 | I see you, John Maynard Keynes. |
| 1:16.4 | We have some business here to take care of. |
| 1:18.6 | Because you have not yet proved to us that you are worthy of a completely bogus fake degree from a made-up school. |
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