Conspicuous Consumption: Why We Go Broke Trying to Look Rich
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1899, as railroad tycoons and steel magnates crowded into rooms once reserved for old money, ...
7 Loka 25min
Wampum Was Never Money: The Sacred Beads Colonists Turned Into Cash
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Textbooks tend to describe wampum as a kind of early money. For the peoples of the northeastern ...
7 Loka 20min
Loss Leaders: Why Costco Loses Money on Every $1.50 Hot Dog
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 2013 Costco CEO Craig Jelinek suggested to co-founder James Sinegal that the quarter-pound ho...
7 Loka 22min
Planned Obsolescence: Why Your Phone and Printer Are Built to Fail
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The phone battery that fades the week a new model arrives and the printer that refuses to scan w...
7 Loka 26min
The Piggy Bank: A 2,000-Year History of Smashing Our Savings
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The traditional piggy bank asks a child to protect and feed a ceramic animal for months and then...
7 Loka 21min
The Cola Wars: How Coke and Pepsi's Feud Rewired Consumer Psychology
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 2006 a Coca-Cola executive secretary named Joya Williams and two accomplices offered the comp...
7 Loka 18min
Casino de Monte-Carlo: The Desperate Gamble That Saved Monaco
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The citizens of Monaco have never been allowed to gamble in the casino that made their country f...
7 Loka 21min
The Potlatch: Where Giving Away Your Wealth Was the Path to Power
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Among the Kwakwaka'wakw, Haida, and Tlingit peoples of the Pacific Northwest coast, status came ...
7 Loka 21min
