de Botton on the Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Author Alain de Botton talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work. How has the nature of work changed with the increase in specialization? Why is the search for meaningful work a modern phenomenon? Has the change in the workplace changed parenting? Why does technology become invisible? These are some of the questions discussed by de Botton in a wide-ranging discussion of the modern workplace and the modern worker.

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de Botton on the Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an episode from EconTalk Archives, 2010 by Library of Economics and Liberty.

This episode is 59:09 long.

This episode was published on Sep 13, 2010.

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