53. The Simple Economics of Saving the Amazon Rainforest
53. The Simple Economics of Saving the Amazon Rainforest  
Podcast: People I (Mostly) Admire
Published On: Sat Nov 27 2021
Description: Everyone agrees that massive deforestation is an environmental disaster. But most of the standard solutions — scolding the Brazilians, invoking universal morality — ignore the one solution that might actually work. Originally released on Freakonomics Radio, Steve gives an update on what’s happened in the two years since this episode first ran.