EPISODE · Sep 11, 2020 · 59 MIN
ROBERT FRANK, best-selling economist - UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Putting Peer Pressure to Work
from Free Forum with Terrence McNally · host Terrence McNally
We often think social contagion yields negative consequences - teens smoke because other teens smoke, for example. However, in his latest book, UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Putting Peer Pressure to Work, ROBERT FRANK makes the optimistic case that the economics of social contagion could solve our most critical problems — from climate change to income inequality – as well as the Covid-19 pandemic. There’s evidence: As VOX’s Ezra Klein points out, in the face of the coronavirus, "social pressure has driven perhaps the single fastest behavioral transformation in human history.”
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We often think social contagion yields negative consequences - teens smoke because other teens smoke, for example. However, in his latest book, UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Putting Peer Pressure to Work, ROBERT FRANK makes the optimistic case that the economics of social contagion could solve our most critical problems — from climate change to income inequality – as well as the Covid-19 pandemic. There’s evidence: As VOX’s Ezra Klein points out, in the face of the coronavirus, "social pressure has driven perhaps the single fastest behavioral transformation in human history.”
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