EXTRA: Nobel Laureate Claudia Goldin on "Greedy Work" and the Wage Gap

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45. Leidy Klotz on Why the Best Solutions Involve Less — Not More

When we try to improve things, our first thought is often: What can we add to make this better? But Leidy, a professor of engineering, says we tend to overlook the fact that a better solution might be to take something away. He and Steve talk about examples from Leidy’s book Subt ...  Show more

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