480. How Much Does Discrimination Hurt the Ec...

A ruthless (and ruthlessly efficient) industry is using digital tools to supercharge one of the world’s oldest behaviors. We look at how the industry works, and ask the scam-fighters what they’re doing about it. SOURCES: Kati Daffan, former assistant director at the Federal Trade ...  Show more

Economists don’t usually talk about “culture.” But Joel Mokyr argues that it’s the engine of innovation — and the Nobel Prize committee agreed. Stephen Dubner sits down for a thousand-year conversation (including advice!) with the new Nobel laureate. SOURCES: Joel Mokyr, economic ...  Show more

Sam, Harsha and Siddhant are tech workers of Indian descent, who all say they have experienced discrimination in corporate America. They are not being singled out on the basis of race, gender, religion or nationality, but by an invisible factor; one they were born into, and one t ...  Show more

Tenemos muchos tipos de discriminación en el mundo. Cuando dos o más tipos de discriminación se unen, el efecto puede ser imprevisible. ¿Qué efecto tiene la intersección de las diferentes identidades en el acceso a oportunidades? En su charla en TEDxTukuyWomen, Ana Lucía Mosquera ...  Show more

Texte:
A peu près 80 pour cent des personnes idendifiées comme transgenre en France disent avoir été la cible de discrimination et/ou de violence.

Traduction:
Around 80 percent of people who identify as transgender in France report having been the target of discrimi ...  Show more

A new book by Linda Villarosa looks at how racial bias in healthcare has costs for all Americans. Spoiler: Poverty counts — but not as much as you'd think.To manage podcast ad preferences, review the links below:See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of ...  Show more