Stephen Dubner
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14,500 appearances
96 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2d ago
Stephen Dubner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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How successful did it become then?
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Once it were you making good money?
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Um, in time,
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When I heard that you went then from being the uh the the inventor and proprietor of these wonderful independent bookshops to being the CEO of the big chain in Britain, Watterstons, I imagined that what had happened is that this big chain came to you, independent bookstore owner, and said, Here's a very large check so that we can take over your shops and meld them with our failing shops and put you atop the
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whole thing until you fail.
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But that's not exactly what happened.
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You rate you retain ownership of the independent stores.
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Yeah.
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How did um how did that work?
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That sounds like a very unusual arrangement.
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At that point, um how long do you think it had?
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bankruptcy, yes.
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Chapter eleven, but it's worse in the UK.
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It's worse in the UK.
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This said by people before, which is that one of the secret drivers of our dynamic economy is you can go bankrupt and then just the next day open up the shop.
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So why has that not been copied more, do you think?
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Why hasn't it been copied in the UK?
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Okay, so you at this point are a successful independent bookshop owner, and you think, well, Waterstones is a national chain of booksellers, and therefore it would make sense for me to buy them.
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