63. Cheap Talk: What Economics Has to Say About Communication

Your words - are they credible? Or are they what Paul Oyer calls “cheap talk?”
According to professor of economics Paul Oyer, how our words align with our actions isn’t just a matter of communication, but a matter of economics too. Economic concepts hold in all areas of life, which Oyer’s research has explored in everything from Uber driving to online dating.
“Economics is everywhere,” Oyer says. “It's an incredibly powerful lens to analyze almost anything in the real world.”
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[@AmateurVolcanologist]

@11:20 the guest states that now (2023 when this was recorded) is a good time to be looking for work because of the good economic conditions. You know this is an academic economist because they take the government's economic data as fact.