#AsktheMayor; Dems Face Off in Houston; How Candidates Will Tackle Housing; The Rise of the Economists; A Plastic Challenge

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 12, 2019

Coming up on today's show:

  • New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
  • Annie Linskey, Washington Post national political reporter, breaks down key moments from the third Democratic presidential debate. Plus, your calls on whether anyone changed your mind.
  • Jenny Schuetz, fellow with Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, explains how the 2020 field's housing plans fit with reality.
  • Binyamin Appelbaum, economics and business writer for the editorial page of The New York Times and author of The Economists' Hour (Little, Brown and Company, 2019), argues that the post-War II policy of relying on economists — and their emphasis on efficiency — to run the Federal Reserve and the Dept of Treasury has been bad for democracy.
  • Judith Enck, founder of Beyond Plastics and former EPA Region 2 administrator, helps us sort through all the types of plastics in our lives, and understand exactly how they are making an impact on climate change.

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