After Hours

Amazon Under Attack, and Household Financial Stress

Oct 16, 2019

36:28

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Is There a Corollary to That?

01:40

The Earned Income Tax Credit Should Be Expanded, the Federal Minimum Wage Should Be Raised

01:42

Childcare - What's Your Sensation?

02:34

Introduction

2min

Is the Economy Getting Worse?

4min

Childcare - What's Your Sensation?

3min

What Do You Think About Wage Substitutes?

2min

Wage Substitutes - I Like It

2min

Is There a Corollary to That?

2min

The Earned Income Tax Credit Should Be Expanded, the Federal Minimum Wage Should Be Raised

2min

Should We Love or Hate on Amazon Right Now?

3min

Amazon and Its Suppliers - Is There a Difference?

2min

10.

Is Amazon a Good Place to Start a Business?

4min

11.

Is Amazon Responsible for Over 40 % of E Commerce Transactions?

4min

12.

Is Amazon a Good Thing or a Bad Thing?

3min

13.

Book Review - Inhoffe's Shadow by Jack Goldsmith

3min

14.

Thear White People - A College Comedy Series

2min

Youngme Moon , Felix Oberholzer-Gee , and Mihir Desai discuss the problem of household financial stress. They also debate whether current criticisms of Amazon are justified.

Suggested Reading

“Is Amazon Unstoppable?” (Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker)
“Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan” (Franklin Foer, The Atlantic)

Some recent picks:

“In Hoffa’s Shadow” (by Jack Goldsmith)
“Dopesick” (by Beth Macy)
Dear White People (Netflix)
1619: The Birth of American Music (podcast)
PRI’s The World (podcast)
American Factory (Netflix)
Darren Brown: Secret (Broadway)
Succession (HBO)

You can email your comments and ideas for future episodes to: harvardafterhours@gmail.com. You can follow Youngme and Mihir on Twitter at: @YoungmeMoon and @DesaiMihirA.

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After Hours

Amazon Under Attack, and Household Financial Stress

Is There a Corollary to That?

The Earned Income Tax Credit Should Be Expanded, the Federal Minimum Wage Should Be Raised

Childcare - What's Your Sensation?

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