By Robert Smith, Alex Goldmark, and Audrey Dilling |
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
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You can watch all episodes of Planet Money Summer School here and on TikTok.
Planet Money Summer School is back! A free economics class that anyone, anywhere can take! This summer we’ll go back in history to understand the origins of our financial way of life.
Everything we take for granted in today’s economy started somewhere. When we hear about automation taking people’s jobs, banks failing, inflation soaring, strange new forms of money emerging, tariffs rising again, and so on, we can say, “I understand why this is happening. We’ve seen it before.”
Episode 1 starts with a surprisingly complex question: what is money and where does it come from? To find the answer, we visit a remote island in the Pacific Ocean, where one form of money is a giant circular stone. We then travel to France in 1714, where a man on the run attempts to reform the country’s entire monetary system, before it all comes crashing down, coming surprisingly close to today’s modern economy.
Summer School episodes will be released every Wednesday leading up to Labor Day. You can watch past Summer School seasons here and watch Summer School videos on TikTok here.
The series is hosted by Robert Smith and produced by Audrey Dilling. The project manager is Devin Mellor. This episode was edited by Planet Money’s executive producer Alex Goldmark and fact-checked by Sofia Shchukina.
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