Series overview
Who Gets to Choose?
Three essays and three M.K. Podcast conversations on the freedom to say no at work, the power to change the rules together, and who pays first for reform.
3 essays · 3 podcast episodes
- 01 / Economics
Can You Afford to Say No? Adam Smith on Choice at Work
The company is growing, but you still hesitate to turn down a Saturday shift. Adam Smith's chapter on wages helps explain how time, money and job options shape what we can ask for.
- 02 / Politics
When Left and Right Clash, Is the Middle Always Right?
From the U.S. midterms and California’s voter identification proposal to Aristotle’s idea of the mean, what does a vote for a candidate actually authorize?
- 03 / Society
Everyone Wants Reform. Why Do I Keep Getting the Bill First?
France’s budget dispute and Portugal’s housing protests raise a question from Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation: who pays first for reform, and who can afford to wait?