Robert Smith
speaker
2,515 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Aug
Robert Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Let's bring back in our professor for the day.
Oliver Kim.
Oliver, what should students think about as they listen to our first case study?
Okay, our first case study comes from the Planet Money T-shirt project.
This is when we manufactured a t-shirt, sold it to you, the listeners, and followed the process around the world.
Our shirt was cut and sewn in Bangladesh, but Planet Money host Zoe Chase discovered that the know-how to make that shirt, our shirt, came from South Korea and their need to export their skills to a new place.
That story and the Planet Money T-shirt project first aired in 2013.
And you really should check out the whole Planet Money T-shirt series if you haven't heard it before.
It's magnificent.
It's all you need to know about world trade in a single garment.
Let's bring our Professor Dujoure back in here, Oliver Kim.
Hey Oliver.
Hi, Robert.
Economists love to talk about something called the industrial ladder.
Countries start out making simple things like t-shirts, and then they climb this ladder and they get good at building factories, they educate their workers more, and then they can make more complicated things like steel and cars and computer chips eventually.
But that bottom rung of the industrial ladder really does seem
to start out with clothing, with textiles, because you need so many people, I guess, right?
To to cut and sew each product.
And the one thing these countries have is people.
One of the things I loved about this story was that it reminded me that economic development is more than just investment and transferring money.
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