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Summer School 1: A government's role in the economy is to make us all richer

2025-07-09 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·35m 46s ·by NPR
Summer School 1: A government's role in the economy is to …
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Government. The Big G. We like to imagine the free market and the invisible hand as being independent from political influence. But Nobel laureate, Simon Johnson, says that influence has been there since the birth of economics. Call it political economy. Call it government and business. Call it our