WorkLife with Adam Grant

Esther Duflo wants you to think like a plumber

Nov 9, 2021

56:59

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Women in Leadership

01:54

How Do Financial Incentives Affect Your Work?

02:52

Is There Anything You've Learned From Being a Plumber?

03:44

Introduction

3min

How Did You Discover Economics?

4min

Do Economists Understand the Quality of Our Lives?

3min

How Did You Fall Out of Hate With Economics?

2min

Did People Think You Were Insane?

2min

Common Assumptions About Poverty Are Overturned by Your Work

3min

The Belief in a Just World

4min

The Evidence That Doesn't Make People Lazy

2min

The Importance of Dignity

2min

10.

How Do Financial Incentives Affect Your Work?

3min

11.

Is There a Way to Provide Substitutes for for Money?

3min

12.

Women and Leadership

2min

13.

Women in Leadership

2min

14.

Changing Attitudes Is the Beginning of Changing Behavior

5min

15.

Are You Trying to Change Your Preferences?

2min

16.

Are You Like Plumbers?

5min

17.

How Does the Nobell Prize Affect Your Motivation?

2min

18.

What Have I Done Lately?

2min

19.

Is There Anything You've Learned From Being a Plumber?

4min

20.

How to Design Effective Interventions in Developing Countries

4min

When Esther Duflo took her first economics class, she hated it. In 2019, she won a Nobel Prize in economics. Esther talks with Adam about her groundbreaking experiments to fight poverty, busts myths about what motivates people, and reveals how to make meaningful progress toward solving daunting problems. Read the text transcript for this episode at go.ted.com/T4G24

This was an episode of Taken for Granted, but now the podcast is called ReThinking with Adam Grant, and it’s back with weekly episodes. You can listen to them right here in the WorkLife feed, or by following ReThinking with Adam Grant wherever you are right now.