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14. Why Do Most Ideas Fail to Scale?

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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Scaling Up UBI?

Universal basic income is an idea that economists have been thinking about for decades. There are a number of pilot programs around the world, and generally they show success. What i'm talking about here now are spill over effects on local labor market, or spill over effects in the local community. And whether we understand those at scale.

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