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#522: The Invention Of 'The Economy'

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If you asked someone on the street 100 years ago, "How's the economy doing?" They wouldn't have had any idea what you were talking about.   On today's show: How we started boiling down entire nations into a single number. And how that number made people think they could control everything.

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