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Explore "governmentinvestment" with insightful episodes like "How to make space travel economically viable", "A COVID-19 Vaccine: What You Need To Know", "How To Fund The Search For A COVID-19 Vaccine And Boost The Recovery" and "What Boy Band Sensation BTS Can Teach Us About Economics" from podcasts like ""Economics Explained", "Short Wave", "Odd Lots" and "Odd Lots"" and more!
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A COVID-19 Vaccine: What You Need To Know
Approximately 200 COVID-19 vaccines are being actively developed, a process that health officials are expediting to help end the pandemic. Today on the show, NPR science correspondent Joe Palca walks us through the latest in vaccine development — from how a coronavirus vaccine would work to the challenges of distributing it to the world.
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How To Fund The Search For A COVID-19 Vaccine And Boost The Recovery
The hunt is on for a clinical therapy to prevent or treat COVID-19. But what’s the best way to go about this? How can governments accelerate this process? And what can governments do now to help a robust economic recovery? On this week’s Odd Lots, we speak with Bill Janeway, an economist and venture capitalist, who has written extensively on how the government can accelerate innovation by the private sector. He explains how his thoughts translate into the medical space and the post-crisis economy overall.
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What Boy Band Sensation BTS Can Teach Us About Economics
South Korean boy band BTS is rarely connected to economics, but as the biggest success to come out of K-Pop, it arguably should be. On this week's episode of Odd Lots, we speak to Euny Hong, the author of 'The Birth of Korean Cool,' about how South Korea made cultural exports a key plank in its economic development strategy.
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