Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2015-02-19
Books mentioned on 197. Hacking the World Bank
Jim Yong Kim has an unorthodox background for a World Bank president — and his reign thus far is just as unorthodox. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company.
Jim Yong Kim discussed Dying for Growth by Jim Yong Kim and Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Dying for Growth
Dying for Growth, edited by Jim Yong Kim and others, offers a critical examination of how international financial institutions approach the health issues of impoverished populations globally.
Discussed“I was one of the editors on a book that's entitled Dying for Growth, Global Inequality in the Health of the Poor. And it basically was a critique of the approach”
Where to get it
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman is a seminal book exploring the two systems of thought that drive human decision-making: the fast, intuitive system and the slow, logical system.
Discussed“Daniel Kahneman won his Nobel Prize on looking at different ways of thinking and questioning the assumptions that economists were making in 2002. And so his work predates that by quite a bit.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Freakonomics
“And partly, and this is what you guys have done so beautifully in both Freakonomics and Superfreakonomics, is you've actually made hypotheses, but then you've looked at the data.”
Passing Superfreakonomics
“And partly, and this is what you guys have done so beautifully in both Freakonomics and Superfreakonomics, is you've actually made hypotheses, but then you've looked at the data.”