Greg Rosalski
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2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 1 Jul
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Delegates from 44 allied and associate countries arrived for the opening of the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference.
These meetings are designed to promote trade in the post-war world and to create a foundation for lasting peace.
In the last round of tariffs that the previous Trump administration launched in 2018, 2019, it turned out that the iPhone was exempted from those tariffs.
In the past five years, for example, they've been increasingly shifting iPhone production to Vietnam and India.
Yeah, so I think that given that he was planning to upgrade anyways, I think he hedged his bets and went ahead and bought it, which makes sense.
But in the early 2000s, there were these three economists who pointed out something was missing from that picture. Something massive that a lot of people in their field were overlooking. Their research, it triggered a revolution in economics. And this year, those three economists, they won the Nobel Prize. We recently met up with one of them on Zoom. Hello. Hello. Yes, this is James Robinson here.
Wow. Punctuality, sir. I feel like winning a Nobel Prize, you wouldn't have to show up on time anymore.
Now, it's one thing to win a Nobel Prize. It's another to win it with your friends.
An emoji. Of course, being hard-hitting journalists, we had to verify this fact with Duran himself. So we called him up.
Good, drone! How, well, you know, we talked a few weeks ago, uh, and I wasn't nervous, but somehow I, I'm, I'm nervous now with a man of you.
So James Robinson told us that he did send you a smiley face emoji.
Which is wonderful.
This trio of economists won the prize for a monumental insight, one that helped economists understand this kind of mysterious X factor that can determine the success or failure of a nation's economy. Hello and welcome to Planet Money. I'm Greg Rosalski.
Today on the show, we're chatting with James and Duran about why some countries are rich and others are poor. Why it took so long for economics to recognize the power of institutions. And what the heck is an institution anyway? For this year's winners, the path to the Nobel Prize in economics started back in 1992. The Cold War has just ended. The number two song on the charts is Baby Got Back.
And James Robinson is just finishing up his PhD.
That really irritating guy? That was Duran Asimoglu. who at the time was also a PhD student, we asked him to paint a picture of that first time he met James.
That's exactly what he said. Did he say that? Oh, no. He used the word irritating.
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