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426. Should America (and FIFA) Pay Reparations?

Freakonomics Radio

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Women's Teams in the Dick Cur Locomotive Factory

When the male socker fraternity banned women from playing in nineteen twenty one, it effectively quashed the competition. And this brings us back finally, i know, to the lady socker team of the dick cur locomotive factory. So stephen, you're an economist, and you guys are always teaching us that competition is what makes markets thrive. But throughout history, we see that many firms who subscribe to economic theory when it's good for them, when they see competition that they think is not good for them. All of a sudden they don't want economics to work the way it's supposed to work, or they don't want the competition....

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