About this episode

The episode discusses the concept of Muskism and its implications on the future of money with historians Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff.

We’re talking about the new magic of money, or Musk-ism, as our guests call it. Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff are historians of different sorts—historians of the future. Oddly enough, their hair-raising new book is ... The post Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .

People in this episode

Host: Christopher Lydon

Guests: Quinn Slobodian, Ben Tarnoff

Topics covered

• money
• Muskism
• history
• future
• economics

Keywords

• Muskism
• money
• Quinn Slobodian
• Ben Tarnoff
• history
• economics
• future

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Muskism

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