Robert Smith
Currency Chaos in Argentina (Summer School) adds Smith as the host framing Argentina as a Summer School case in Monetary Volatility, Capital Controls, Austerity, and Exchange-Rate Flexibility. His narration ties Jasmine Garsd’s 2001 crisis memory, Lucas Babic’s 2022 dollar hoarding, and the 2023 reporting by Amanda Aronczyk and Erika Beras into one lesson about why stable money matters.
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.
How we got free agents in baseball adds Smith as a Business History host whose Curt Flood episode is carried by Planet Money. The source uses his and Jacob Goldstein’s business-history framing to connect MLB free agency to Labor Monopsony, antitrust, public opinion, and Sports Collective Bargaining.
How to beat the resource curse in Norway (Summer School) adds Smith as the host framing Norway as a Summer School case in Resource Curse Governance. The episode connects oil wealth, Dutch Disease, social trust, and Export Market Coordination through the contrasting stories of offshore oil and salmon sushi.
Connections
- NPR and Planet Money - network and show context.
- Argentina, Jasmine Garsd, Sebastian Galiani, Amanda Aronczyk, and Erika Beras - Argentina currency-chaos Summer School branch.
- Monetary Volatility, Capital Controls, Menu Costs, Austerity, and Exchange-Rate Flexibility - concepts from the Argentina episode.
- Justin Wolfers - economist guiding the episode’s policy-laboratory frame.
- Water Market Design and Inflation Targeting - two main concepts explained through the episode.
- Jacob Goldstein, Business History, Curt Flood, Major League Baseball, Baseball Reserve Clause, and Baseball Free Agency - baseball free-agency history branch added by the new source.
- Norway, Hilde Bjornland, Resource Curse Governance, and Salmon Sushi Market Creation - Norway Summer School branch added by the new source.