Economics professor Lisa D. Cook stops by to discuss her New York Times article on the wide-ranging economic impact of discrimination, the racist history of patents and innovation, and vaccine IP questions. 

In the Plus Segment: Mobile money. 

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Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.

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