Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2024-07-18

Books mentioned on 597. Why Do Your Eyeglasses Cost $1,000?

2 books · With Neil Handley, Jessica Glasscock, C2́dric Rossi, Ryan McDevitt, Tim Wu, Neil Blumenthal, Dave Gilboa · Listen · Watch on YouTube

A single company, EssilorLuxottica, owns so much of the eyewear industry that it’s hard to escape their gravitational pull — or their “obscene” markups. Should regulators do something?

Stephen Dubner discussed Making a Spectacle by Jessica Glasscock and The Curse of Bigness by Tim Wu.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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1. 

   Making a Spectacle

   Jessica Glasscock · at 15:29

   Discussed

   “she is also o the author of a book called making a spectacle fashionable history of glasses”

   Stephen Dubner 597. Why Do Your Eyeglasses Cost $1,000? 2024-07-18 Listen at 15:29

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   The Curse of Bigness

   Tim Wu · at 31:50

   Discussed

   “Tim woo published a book about this in 2018 called The Curse of bigness antitrust in the new Gilded Age in the late 19th century where all starts”

   Stephen Dubner 597. Why Do Your Eyeglasses Cost $1,000? 2024-07-18 Listen at 31:50

   Where to get it

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