2024-07-16
45 分钟What are you doing right now?
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I'm Bea Duncan, senior partnerships producer at Intelligence Squared.
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm head of programming Connor Boyle on today's podcast, Emily Ulster, the economist whose expert eye for finding the story in data is helping parents and carers attend potentially raise happier families.
She'll be discussing her latest book, the Unexpected.
Joining Emily in conversation for this episode is another sharp mind with facts and figures.
Tim Harford.
Tim is senior columnist at the Financial Times, host of the Cautionary Tales podcast, and among his other great reads is author of his first children's book, the Truth Detective.
Let's join Tim now with more.
It's one of those great partnerships, parenthood and economics.
Well, if that doesn't quite make sense to you, it will after the next half hour.
My guest today is Emily Oster.
She describes herself as being on a mission to empower parents by providing the data and tools they need to make confident decisions.
Emily is professor of economics at Brown University.