LZ Granderson: I would call it my loveliness quotient. He says he does a number of lovely things during the year. LZ: Would it be a good thing if all the, quote, good deeds were collected in one place so you could decide how lovely I was? LZ: There's something repellent about that, but on the other hand, there's something beautiful about it.
Economist and author Michael Munger of Duke University talks about his book, Tomorrow 3.0, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Munger analyzes the rise of companies like Uber and AirBnB as an example of how technology lowers transactions costs. Users and providers can find each other more easily through their smartphones, increasing opportunity. Munger expects these costs to fall elsewhere and predicts an expansion of the sharing economy to a wide array of items in our daily lives.