Min Jin Lee, bestselling contemporary novelist, discusses how her background in economics influences her approach to writing and storytelling. The podcast explores how economic decisions in fiction writing reveal desires and motivations, how secret economists merged their passion for money into their novels, and the emotional complexities of a Korean family's immigration in the book 'Pachinko'. It also explores shipping as a manifestation of desires and frustration with financial jargon turned into literary gold. The author discusses the relationship between financial and political power, the use of language as tools of power, and gaining financial literacy.