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Economic Update: Analyzing Incarceration

Updates on health economics; Mississippi political lessons; and what’s wrong with a Harvard economist.

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Updates on health economics; Mississippi political lessons; and what’s wrong with a Harvard economist. Wolff interviews Victor Wallis on the economics and politics of US prisons. Response to questions about: gender wage gap, real estate bubbles and the “ultra rich.”

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