
This episode of "The Indicator from Planet Money" features a "Quizbowl" competition between co-hosts Darian Woods and Wailin Wong, with Adrian Ma serving as the quizmaster. The trivia topic is "the economics of the public sector, a.k.a. government economics." Darian Woods answers all five questions correctly, covering concepts such as the free-rider problem, Standard Oil's antitrust case, Pigouvian taxes, automatic stabilizers, and Milton Friedman's negative income tax, securing a win over Wailin Wong.
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