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Intro Econ 4: Scarcity & Pistachios

Planet Money Summer School

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The Problem With Sharing a Common Resource

Economists in residence this summer, Betsy Stevenson and Justin Wolfers from the University of Michigan. This episode is a great one because I want to get students to think about the kind of problems that we face when we're all trying to share a common resource. The most obvious answers do involve the government. But there's a different form of government, which is an association for local pistachio growers.

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