Think Live: Planet Money

Krys Boyd in conversation with Alex Mayyasi of NPR's Planet Money and author of Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life

 

Millions of listeners turn to Planet Money to make sense of the world. Now, in their first-ever book, longtime contributor Alex Mayyasi and the hosts of NPR's hit podcast present brand new reporting and insights gathered from more than a decade of award-winning journalism to investigate the powerful forces that shape your life. Exploring the mysteries of the global economy, Planet Money explains how money works, reveals how AI might help you or replace you, demystifies dating markets, and shows how pro sports’ "dumbest" contract holds the secret to building wealth.

Planet Money takes readers on adventures to a smartphone factory in Patagonia, a raisin cartel in California, and an Indigenous reserve in Canada that might just have a solution for the housing crisis. Introducing the biggest ideas in economics through surprising stories, unexpected takeaways, and intimate journeys with interesting characters, Planet Money shows how economics shapes our world, and how we can harness its key principles to make our own lives a little richer.

 

Alex Mayyasi is the host of the new podcast Gastronomics, about the business of food, and a longtime contributor to Planet Money whose writing has been published in The Atlantic, Smithsonian, and Washington Post. A former editor of Priceonomics, he launched Gastro Obscura, which won two James Beard Awards and published the New York Times bestselling book Gastro Obscura. He lives in Colorado.