Orality
Model
91%
Highly oral (epic poetry, sermons, hip-hop)
Speaker Breakdown
HostJoe Weisenthal(819 words)
M:93%
HostTracy Alloway(1,247 words)
M:29%
GuestClair Brown(2,400 words)
M:28%
Oral Indicators
Agonistic23%
certainly, absolutely, totally
Engagement81%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, like, right
Repetition100%
about (46x), people (45x), economics (43x)
Parallelism93%
And I'm Joe Wasenthal...., And doesn't it just feel like ..., So do you ever kind of wonder ...
Sound Patterns82%
39 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases13%
i mean, to be honest, so to speak
Literate Indicators
Hedging15%
may, quite, maybe
Passive Voice7%
were combined, are supposed, are unemployed
Abstract Nouns28%
investment, community, business
Subordination4%
because, while
Sentence Length42%
Avg: 15.4 words/sentence
Word Complexity50%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style19%
386 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style92%
apply, really, specifically
Description
There's a widespread sense that something remains broken in the global economy. Despite a comeback in official measures of economic performance, like GDP and the unemployment rate, there's a widespread sense of disillusionment and discontentment with the status quo. Clair Brown, an economics professor at UC Berkeley teaches a class on Buddhist Economics and has written a book on the subject. On this week's episode of the Odd Lots podcast, Brown argues that the application of Buddhist principles could help economists and policymakers focus on what will actually satisfy people, as opposed to material measures that leave them feeling cold and empty. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.