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Freakonomics Radio

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Six Million People Died in the Terrist Attack

Three thousand people died in the 9 11 terrist attack. That's an event that is deeply scarred the us. The whole cost was like nine 11 every single day of the year for four years. Daniel mendelssohn himself says, you know, talking to survivors, we could not believe it was happening. And so how could we possibly imagine anyone else across the atlantic, in the united states, to understand exactly what was happening if they could scarcely believe it? It's kind of poetic dilemma which we struggle as economists, as film makers, as human beings to put some new way to explain the calculus. There are two million jews that are murdered before anyone starts employing

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