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493. Why Does the Most Monotonous Job in the World Pay $1 Million?

Freakonomics Radio

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The Long Snapper - What Is It?

Economist Victor matheson has his own favorite example of spe ation. Ten people in a factory could specialize on ten different aspects of how you make a pen, he says. Economics is the study of the application of scarce resources across competing uses. And sports economics focuses on anything where we use this in the sports world.

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