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139. Reflections after 7 years

Education Bookcast

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The Power of Economic Thinking in Prisons and Prison Gangs

I think neoliberal economics is rubbish because of terrible assumptions but there are a number of different cases where you can apply economic thinking and you can actually understand a lot about people's behavior. Sometimes I think about covering them on the podcast because they're interesting but they're just too far away from understanding education so for example the behavior of prisoners and the formation of prison gangs something that can be completely understood from the perspective of economic actors following their own self-interest groups existing essentially as political protection for individuals.

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