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Audra Wolfe

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
93 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Freakonomics Radio
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)

It was about this display of affordable abundance available to American consumers.

Freakonomics Radio
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)

It was about this display of affordable abundance available to American consumers.

Freakonomics Radio
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)

There were quite a few people who thought that If you showed that American consumers could access affordable food, you know, strawberries in December without having to wait in line, that that might actually cause the whole communist system to collapse.

Freakonomics Radio
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)

There were quite a few people who thought that If you showed that American consumers could access affordable food, you know, strawberries in December without having to wait in line, that that might actually cause the whole communist system to collapse.

Freakonomics Radio
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)

There were quite a few people who thought that If you showed that American consumers could access affordable food, you know, strawberries in December without having to wait in line, that that might actually cause the whole communist system to collapse.

Freakonomics Radio
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)

Immediately after seeing it, Marshall Tito, the leader of the country at the time, ordered the whole thing to be purchased. And it was bought wholesale from the United States exhibitors and used as a model. They hired a consultant from an Atlanta supermarket firm to come over and teach them how to build their own chain of socialist supermarkets.

Freakonomics Radio
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)

Immediately after seeing it, Marshall Tito, the leader of the country at the time, ordered the whole thing to be purchased. And it was bought wholesale from the United States exhibitors and used as a model. They hired a consultant from an Atlanta supermarket firm to come over and teach them how to build their own chain of socialist supermarkets.

Freakonomics Radio
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)

Immediately after seeing it, Marshall Tito, the leader of the country at the time, ordered the whole thing to be purchased. And it was bought wholesale from the United States exhibitors and used as a model. They hired a consultant from an Atlanta supermarket firm to come over and teach them how to build their own chain of socialist supermarkets.

Freakonomics Radio
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)

Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev There are two of the most explicit users of this Cold War farms race language. Khrushchev declared that by outproducing the U.S. in per capita meat and milk production, that would be the Soviet equivalent of hitting American capitalism with a torpedo.

Freakonomics Radio
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)

Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev There are two of the most explicit users of this Cold War farms race language. Khrushchev declared that by outproducing the U.S. in per capita meat and milk production, that would be the Soviet equivalent of hitting American capitalism with a torpedo.

Freakonomics Radio
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)

Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev There are two of the most explicit users of this Cold War farms race language. Khrushchev declared that by outproducing the U.S. in per capita meat and milk production, that would be the Soviet equivalent of hitting American capitalism with a torpedo.

Freakonomics Radio
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)

Nixon retorted that if there was going to be a torpedo fired, it was going to be by America's farmers and ranchers. to which the farmers and ranchers listening to his speech applauded very mightily.

Freakonomics Radio
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)

Nixon retorted that if there was going to be a torpedo fired, it was going to be by America's farmers and ranchers. to which the farmers and ranchers listening to his speech applauded very mightily.

Freakonomics Radio
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)

Nixon retorted that if there was going to be a torpedo fired, it was going to be by America's farmers and ranchers. to which the farmers and ranchers listening to his speech applauded very mightily.

Freakonomics Radio
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)

Some historians would argue that this was one of the crucial factors that led to his downfall. that it was just embarrassing on the world stage for the Soviet Union, this vast country with enormous agricultural resources, having to turn to its archenemy for grain.

Freakonomics Radio
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)

Some historians would argue that this was one of the crucial factors that led to his downfall. that it was just embarrassing on the world stage for the Soviet Union, this vast country with enormous agricultural resources, having to turn to its archenemy for grain.

Freakonomics Radio
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)

Some historians would argue that this was one of the crucial factors that led to his downfall. that it was just embarrassing on the world stage for the Soviet Union, this vast country with enormous agricultural resources, having to turn to its archenemy for grain.

Freakonomics Radio
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)

Yeah, I mean, this is central to the kind of lie, really, of the supermarket as a weapon.

Freakonomics Radio
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)

Yeah, I mean, this is central to the kind of lie, really, of the supermarket as a weapon.

Freakonomics Radio
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)

Yeah, I mean, this is central to the kind of lie, really, of the supermarket as a weapon.