2022-08-04
51 分钟We often look to other countries for smart policies on education, healthcare, infrastructure, etc. But can a smart policy be simply transplanted into a country as culturally unusual (and as supremely WEIRD) as America?
Hey there, it's Steven Dubner.
Today on the show we are revisiting the first episode in a series we made last year about american culture and just how unusual it is.
We have updated facts and figures as necessary.
Also, we need your help for a new episode we're producing about bosses who have business degrees.
We want to hear your stories, specifically about how your company or department changed when someone with an MBA showed up to start running things.
Did the situation get better?
Worse?
Weirder?
How?
You can send an email to radioeekonomics.com or even better, a voice memo and we might use your voice on the show.
Please record your voice memo in a quiet place.
Keep your mouth close to the phone.
Please include your name, where you live, and what you do.
And given the nature of this topic, if you need to stay anonymous, we will honor that.
You can send the voice memo to that same address, radioreakonomics.com.
thanks in advance.
And now I hope you enjoy this episode.
How much time have you spent thinking about what makes America America?
It may help if you're not originally from here.
When was that moment that America became the most american America it could possibly be?