Government Spending, Brain Filtering, Unified Parenting

Government Spending, Brain Filtering, Unified Parenting

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 6, Episode 16

  • Jan 19, 2017 7:00 am
  • 2:28:27 mins

We Are Better Than This: How Government Should Spend Our Money (19:47) Edward D. Kleinbard is The Ivadelle and Theodore Johnson Professor of Law and Business at the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law, and a Fellow at The Century Foundation. He is the author of a book, We Are Better Than This: How Government Should Spend Our Money. Today, inequality in America is becoming a hereditary gene.  How can we correct this?  The answer is institutionalized empathy.   Edward D. Kleinbard shares ideas on how the government can spend our money better by approaching policy making with empathy. Does the Brain Filter out a Wider Awareness? (1:08:42) Dr. Marjorie Hines Woollacott has been a neuroscience professor at the University of Oregon for more than three decades and a meditator for almost four. She also has a master’s degree in Asian studies, which she began on a teaching sabbatical and completed at the UO while a full-time professor.  Her master’s thesis was the found...