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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Joseph Stiglitz: Economics and the Good Society
Description: One of the world’s leading economists joins us to offer a compelling new vision of personal and economic freedom.Many Americans believe this nation was born from the conviction that people must be free. But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted. Forces on the political right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, leading to pharmaceutical companies freely overcharging for medication, a Big Tech free from oversight, politicians free to incite rebellion, corporations free to pollute, and more.Ho...