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3. What Would the World Look Like if Economists Were in Charge?

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The Sea Stedding Institute

Patrick Friedman founded the Sea Stedding Institute, a nonprofit which researches how we can let people build new societies on the ocean. His father is an economist and two of his grandparents were economists. Patrick: "The way to get economists to be in charge of government is to put businessmen in charge"

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