How the last two centuries led to today’s economy
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Adam Davidson, co-founder of NPR's Planet

How the last two centuries led to today’s economy
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Adam Davidson, co-founder of NPR's Planet Money, can trace a line through time from homemade clothing and baked goods to today's passion economy. Davidson argues that a combination of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is how we got to where we are.

We shifted from an intimate and localized economy of goods and services to an economy of scale, and finally to what Davidson refers to as "intimacy at scale."

There are, of course, positive attributes to this hybrid economic system, but it also comes with some of the flaws of its predecessors.
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ADAM DAVIDSON:

ADAM DAVIDSON is the cofounder of NPR's Planet Money podcast and a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he covers economics and business. Previously he was an economics writer for The New York Times Magazine. He has won many of journalism's most prestigious awards, including a Peabody for his coverage of the financial crisis.

His latest book The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century https://amzn.to/2X31pv5

Adam Werbach, the Sierra Club's youngest-ever President, and Andy Ruben, Walmart's first Chief Sustainability Officer, co-founded Yerdle. This Bay Area startup helps members share and receive free

Adam Werbach, the Sierra Club's youngest-ever President, and Andy Ruben, Walmart's first Chief Sustainability Officer, co-founded Yerdle. This Bay Area startup helps members share and receive free items within their social networks.

Hear them discuss their convergent paths to the sharing economy and offer insights on driving fundamental change in the private sector.