Description
Productivity is our economic measure for how far our work goes, as individuals and as a society over all. It plays an important role in determining our quality of life, the prices of our goods and services, and, to some extent, the amount of free time we have. Today, we explore how thousands of years of productivity advancements transformed something now so standard that we take it for granted: light. | At this Summer School, phones ARE allowed during class... Check out this week's PM TikTok! | Listen to past seasons of Summer School here.
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We are assembled here on the lawn of Planet Money University for...
Published 08/28/24
Find all the episodes from this season here. And past seasons here. And follow along on TikTok here for video Summer School.
When we last left the United States of America in our economic telling of history, it was the early 1900s and the country's leaders were starting to feel like they had...
Published 08/21/24