In this episode, Ramanan speaks with Robert Frank, the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor Emeritus of Management and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos.

They discuss positional arms races, motivations for consumption, and behavioral contagion. This episode is also available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

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