the shroud of turin. as scientific technology has grown and we ve made so many breakthroughs, science hasn t been able to explain this image, how it got on there, how old it is and above all who it is. michael, when you look at this episode, it goes down to the fines of the cloth. and it talks about a number of different lab experiments that were done all over the the world, frankly. and they come to different conclusions. talk to me about the significance of the blood stains. well the blood stains are huge. it s important to remember the shroud was found with another piece of linen called the sudarian of movieta which is a face cloth which the gospel calls wrapped the head of jesus after he had died. again, without giving await entire show the blood stains
eric? as politicians and economists know, fixing the economy is no easy feat but our next guest says the solution to america s financial difficulties comes down to a very simple formula. freedom! here to explain is radio talk show host and author of red and blue and broke all over mr. charles koyette. thank you very much for joining us. what do you mean freedom? it would be nice if we had a lot more in this country. the world is filled with lab experiments of people who are living in poverty. we ve had so many cases in east germany and west germany and the most vivid is north korea and south korea. you look at the north korean peninsula that s all dark. south korean peninsula, it s all illuminated because people there have an income that s 15 times higher. if we try to assess what s going on with the american dream in this country, why do we have 46 million people on food stamps and depression era levels of unemployment and six million
or tax cut, here is the behavior we re going to see. here is the problem with that. lab experiments and research experiments on a small scale don t scale up very well. the reason why is people responded to incentives in ways usually often very, very hard to predict. the best and brightest people in government and policy, wherever they are, in education, can work as hard as they can with all the right intentions, come up with the right incentive scheme. you set it in the real world where there s an army of people looking out for their self-interest. they begin to game the system. i can tell you story after story of unintended consequences that government actions that sound great on paper backfire at least to some degree. that s the important thing about this book. the other thing, many of the incentives you write about in the book and we ll see in the movie are not about money. there are other forms of incentives. let me ask you one thing. in the previews, there was a pay for, pay wha
you can predict how they ll behave? that is very true but let me include the big caveat. what behavioral economists and researchers try to do is run experiments, to figure how people will respond in a new situation. it s a new situation, you don t know yet. they try to take findings and extrapolate them and say, here is what s going to happen. if you introduce a new tax hike or tax cut, here is the behavior we re going to see. here is the problem with that. lab experiments and research experiments on a small scale don t scale up very well. the reason why is people responded to incentives in ways usually often very, very hard to predict. the best and brightest people in government and policy, wherever they are, in education, can work as hard as they can with all the right intentions, come up with the right incentive scheme. you set it in the real world where there s an army of people looking out for their self-interest. they begin to game the system. i can tell you story after story
experiments, to figure how people will respond in a new situation. it s a new situation, you don t know yet. they try to take findings and extrapolate them and say, here is what s going to happen. if you introduce a new tax hike or tax cut, here is the behavior we re going to see. here is the problem with that. lab experiments and research experiments on a small scale don t scale up very well. the reason why is people respond toin sent i was in ways usually often very, very hard to predict. the best and brightest people in government and policy, wherever they are, in education, can work as hard as they can with all the right intentions, come up with the right incentive scheme. you set it in the real world where there s an army of people out for their self-interest. i can tell you story after story of unintended consequences that government action that is sound great on paper backfire at least to some degree. that s the important thing about this book. the other thing, many of the inc