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Free Thinking: Hay Festival: PJ O'Rourke, Steven D Levitt, Stephen J Dubner

Hay Festival with PJ O'Rourke and the authors of Freakonomics

28/05/2014

Hay Festival: PJ O'Rourke, Steven D Levitt, Stephen J Dubner

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PJ O'Rourke and writers of Freakonomics join Rana Mitter at the 2015 Hay Festival.

Rana Mitter is joined on the BBC stage at the 2015 Hay Festival by writer and provocateur PJ O'Rourke, and Freakonomics authors Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner.

Presenter Rana Mitter, is joined on the BBC stage at the Hay Festival by writer and provocateur, PJ O'Rourke and the Freakonomics authors, the economist Steven D Levitt and journalist Stephen J Dubner to discuss decision-making, how emotional and economic stability leads to self-absorbtion, how difficult it is to stop and think about anything and why there is such a gulf between the economic and political and personal rationales for the nature of health care provision here in the UK, the US and around the world.

First broadcast 28/05/2014

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