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#548 - Tim Harford - Why Is Thinking Clearly So Difficult?
Modern Wisdom
Is There an Increase in Child Births?
There was a one of the things that he'd done with the Olympic mind this guy, they were struggling to find a way to create a time release mechanism. They ended up using aniseed balls as the detonation triggers for these things. And it is amazing. You eat your birth and indeed your death responds to tax incentives because they found a similar effect with abolishing inheritance tax. This is the classic economist in me rational choice theory. It does actually explain a few things. I love it.
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