Robert Smith

Robert Smith appears in Our mission: Find the world’s best economic ideas (Summer School World Tour) as the Planet Money host opening the Summer School World Tour. His role is to frame the episode’s movement between Australia’s water market and New Zealand / 新西兰’s inflation-targeting experiment as a comparative economics lesson.

The episode pairs Smith’s hosting with Justin Wolfers’ explanatory role: the conversation keeps the water and inflation stories tied to the broader question of how rules make markets, prices, and expectations work.

Connections

• NPR and Planet Money - network and show context.
• Justin Wolfers - economist guiding the episode’s policy-laboratory frame.
• Water Market Design and Inflation Targeting - two main concepts explained through the episode.