This is a selection of highlights from episode #189 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode:

Rachel Glennerster on how “market shaping” could help solve climate change, pandemics, and other global problems

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Chapters:

• Luisa's intro (00:00:00)
• What is market shaping? (00:00:25)
• Why some countries didn't have COVID vaccines sooner (00:05:04)
• Designing incentives for pull mechanisms (00:09:12)
• Using pull mechanisms to get a universal COVID vaccine (00:13:31)
• Pull mechanisms to incentivise repurposing of generic drugs (00:18:20)
• Specific interventions versus systemic reform in education (00:23:25)

Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong