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Ask Adam: Leftover rice syndrome; why East Asians eat out so much; Adam's future (E21)

The Adam Ragusea Podcast

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Ekon

Ekon is a great major m not an economist, but i'm pretty sure that the hypothesis i'm about to lay out is roughly on target. Why do people in east asia seem to eat outside the home more frequently than people in the west do? The ultimate explanation, i think, is the same ultimatexl for basically everything else that is exceptional about east and southeast asia, and that is rice. Rice explains it all. It's it's the rice show to day, rice theme.

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