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ECONOMICS IS EVERYWHERE. SUPERHEROES ARE BETTER OFF UNDERSTANDING ECONOMICS. WE CAN’T ALL BE SUPERHEROES, BUT WE CAN ALL BE ECONOMISTS.

What Superheroes Know About Economics — Interview with author, Dr. J. Brian O’Roark

Smithsonian Associates, Inside Science & Technology Interview Series

Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Inside Science Series, I’m Paul Vogelzang and this is episode #355.

As part of our Smithsonian Associates Inside Science & Technology series, we are joined today by author, professor, and superhero educator, Dr. J. Brian O’ Roark. Dr. O’Roark is a superhero educator, professor of economics, a tough subject to teach, known as the dismal science. Like many of you, I took my fair share of economics classes and had I been offered a class like this…well, let’s just say it would not have been “The Dismal Science” any longer.