The Economist asks: What can economists learn from literature?

Morton Schapiro is an American economist and the author of “Cents and Sensibility”. He joins host Soumaya Keynes to discuss why economic models rarely reflect reality and how Tolstoy's War and Peace could be the key to understanding Putin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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