The Hot Mess Edition

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On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, data scientist and author of Weapons of Math Destruction, Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann talks to English economist and author of Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives, Tim Harford.

Topics discussed on today’s show include:

 -Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives by Tim Harford.
-Warren Buffett's Taxes
-Contract Theory in the wake of the Nobel Prize awarded.

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Twitter: @felixsalmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann

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