2024-08-29
32 分钟Take the 2024 Planet Money Summer School Quiz here to earn your personalized diploma! Find all the episodes from this season of Summer School here. And past seasons here. And follow along on TikTok here for video Summer School. We are assembled here on the lawn of Planet Money University for the greatest graduation in history – because it features the greatest economic minds in history. We'll hear from Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and some surprising guests as they teach us a little bit more economics, and offer a lot of life advice. But first, we have to wrap up our (somewhat) complete economic history of the world. We'll catch up on the last fifty years or so of human achievement and ask ourselves, has economics made life better for us all? This series is hosted by Robert Smith and produced by Audrey Dilling. Our project manager is Devin Mellor. This episode was edited by Planet Money Executive Producer Alex Goldmark and fact-checked by Sofia Shchukina. Help support Planet Money and hear our bonus episodes by subscribing to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney. Always free at these links: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, the NPR app or anywhere you get podcasts. Find more Planet Money: Facebook / Instagram / TikTok / Our weekly Newsletter. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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shipbob this is Planet money from NPR graduating class of Planet Money Summer School 2024.
Professors, parents, welcome to your commencement ceremony for your master's degree in the economic history of the world.
We stand here on the great lawn of Planet Money University, a place that only exists in our minds, yet a place we return to every summer with a sincere desire to learn a bunch of facts that we can amuse our friends and family with during backyard barbecues.
Today on the show, the greatest graduation in history because it features the greatest economic minds in history.
We'll hear from Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes and some surprising guests as they provide a little bit of economics and a lot of life advice.
It's been 5000 years in the making.
This is lesson eight today and beyond.
I'm Robert Smith.
While our graduation speakers are putting on their robes and sneaking extra glasses of champagne, I see you, John Maynard Keynes.
We have some business here to take care of because you have not yet proved to us that you are worthy of a completely bogus fake degree from a made up school.
You have to pass a test.
We have a fiendishly clever final quiz that we've now put up online.
It's at npr.org summerschool.
Eight questions are all you need to answer, but you might need to go back and study a bit.
This summer school session has moved fast.
It was like the economic history version of Billy Joel's 1989 hit.