Neighbor Science

506: Freako-freakonomics (w/yungneocon)

Yungneocon comes back for an episode on the extremely popular and extremely bad economics book, Freakonomics.

Further reading, courtesy of yungneocon:

Criminal Deterrence: A Review of the Literature

A Simple Test of Abortion and Crime

Abortion and Crime in Canada: A Test of the BMDL Hypothesis

Looking Through Broken Windows: The Impact of Neighborhood Disorder on Aggression and Fear of Crime is an Artifact of Research Design

The Illusion of Free Markets

Punishment and Inequality in America

The Growth of Incarceration in the United States

The Political Movement that Dared not Speak its own Name: The Neoliberal Thought Collective Under Erasure

505b: Ordering Uber Eats from Hitler (ft. Grubstakers)

**This is part 2, if you haven't heard part 1 this will be weird for you**

Ryan and Kris are joined by Sean (@SeanMcCarthyCom), Yogi (@Yogi_Paliwal), and Andy (@andipalmur) of Grubstakers (@grubstakerspod) for an episode on the political economy of fascism.

Grubstakers is a podcast about billionaires which we highly recommend!

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505a: Ordering Uber Eats from Hitler (ft. Grubstakers)

Ryan and Kris are joined by Sean (@SeanMcCarthyCom), Yogi (@Yogi_Paliwal), and Andy (@andipalmur) of Grubstakers (@grubstakerspod) for an episode on the political economy of fascism.

Grubstakers is a podcast about billionaires which we highly recommend!

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504: We're Real Nerds about Bird Turds

Kris and Ryan mine a surprisingly rich topic for its nutrients

Show notes

Main source: Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History. Gregory T. Cushman

502b: Neighborhood Bloc Party 2

**This is part 2 of 2. If you didn't listen to part 1 of 2, go back to the previous episode**

Part 2 of the second Neighborhood Bloc Party

502a: Neighborhood Bloc Party 2

We go in with no particular topic with Soyboi (@halfasstroknot), Sloane (@SloaneVARipley), John (@exJohnValdez).

501b: Why did we stop putting out? Pt. 2

Kris and Ryan discuss the evolution of the factory system. Sorry about the abrupt ending, I didn't make time to record an outro and would rather just give you the content now.

Show Notes

Szostak 1989 - this is the article we reference for most of this part

501a: Why did we stop putting out? Pt. 1

Kris and Ryan discuss the evolution of the factory system. Sorry about the abrupt ending, I didn't make time to record an outro and would rather just give you the content now.

Show Notes

Szostak 1989 - this is the article we reference for most of this part

420: Stealing Bouillon for the Global Souperpowers

An episode about pirates, with a return appearance by our favorite drunken sailor, Soyboi of the Deep (@halfasstroknot)

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419b: Merit is for Scouts

**This is Part 2, if you have not listened to Part 1, go to the previous episode first**

We are joined by John (@exJohnValdez) from Pastrami Hour to talk about an article Ryan wrote on the state & class.

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