2024-01-24
23 分钟On today's episode, we have three big economic ideas for your consideration – ideas that could potentially improve the economy and make us more efficient. First, what if we ban left turns on roads? Then, what if we gave every new baby ... a trust fund? And lastly, what if we completely got rid of U.S. congressional districts? That's all on today's episode. This show was hosted by Sarah Gonzalez. It was produced by Willa Rubin and Emma Peaslee with help from Sam Yellowhorse Kesler. It was edited by Dave Blanchard and engineered by Robert Rodriguez. It was fact-checked by Sierra Juarez. Alex Goldmark is Planet Money's executive producer. Help support Planet Money and get bonus episodes by subscribing to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney. Always free at these links: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, the NPR app or anywhere you get podcasts. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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So economists have big ideas, right?
Ideas that they think would improve the economy, improve efficiency, improve our lives.
And sometimes their ideas are a little out there, but they are convinced that they would improve the world if only people would hear them out.
So today we hear them out.
Hello, and welcome to Planet Money.
I'm Sara Gonzalez.
We have three big ideas from economists and an engineer for your consideration.
The ideas are we ban left turns on the road.
No one can make left turns anymore.
We give people basically Social Security, but not just at the end of their life at birth for them to use the minute they become adults.
And we no longer vote for individual candidates.
What?
Okay, so we have three big ideas for you.
The first is from a civil engineer, Vakash Gaia, who almost went into soil engineering until he found found traffic engineering.