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In defense of gift giving

Planet Money

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Introduction

Jeff Guo organized the first ever Planet Money Secret Santa. He wrote a little computer program to secretly assign all the gift givers and recipients. The algorithm told Greg Rosalski to give a gift to Sarah Gonzalez, who you should know is always talking about how freezing it is. We're gonna talk about three Nobel Prize winning theories that explain why-giving is actually good.

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