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14. Why Do Most Ideas Fail to Scale?

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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Scaling Problems in Economics

Economist John liszt is the author of a new book called the voltage effect. He was inspired to think about scaling problems by the simple fact that he and other academics produce often fails to translate into widespread gains. The first secret is use incentives that can scale. And how do you achieve optimal quitting? I'm stephen dubner. This is for economics.

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