Greg Rosalsky
Since 2018, Greg Rosalsky has been a writer and reporter at NPR's Planet Money.
Before joining NPR, he spent more than five years at Freakonomics Radio, where he produced 60 episodes that were downloaded nearly 100 million times. Those included an exposé of the damage filmmaking subsidies have on American visual-effects workers, a deep dive into the successes and failures of Germany's manufacturing model, and a primer on behavioral economics, which he wrote as a satire of traditional economic thought. Among the show's most popular episodes were those he produced about personal finance, including one on why it's a bad idea for people to pick and choose stocks.
Rosalsky has written freelance articles for a number of publications, including The Behavioral Scientist and Pacific Standard. An article he authored about food inequality in New York City was anthologized in Best Food Writing 2017.
Rosalsky began his career in the plains of Iowa working for an underdog presidential candidate named Barack Obama and was a White House researcher during the early years of the Obama Administration.
He earned a master's degree at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, where he studied economics and public policy.
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The IMF finds companies are getting increasingly powerful. Here's why that's bad for consumers and for the whole economy. -
A national movement to ban plastic bags is gaining steam, but these restrictions may actually hurt the environment more than help it. -
Companies are increasingly using algorithms to set their prices, but is that giving them too much power over consumers? -
Rent control is returning to some communities. But evidence suggests there are better ways to keep low-income people housed.
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Recent studies suggest we're not witnessing the dawn of a new gig economy. What accounts for the resilience of traditional employment? -
The renowned economist and former Obama adviser Alan Krueger died this past weekend. We look at his enormous legacy. -
It's Match Week, when med students apply for residencies. An economist argues this residency system is a key reason why U.S. doctors are paid around twice much as doctors in other rich nations. -
Senator Elizabeth Warren proposes a new kind of U.S. tax policy: a wealth tax. But the policy faces serious hurdles, including lessons from a failed experiment in Europe and a constitutional challenge -
One of the nation's top economists explores the past and future of work in cities. He finds that opportunities for workers without a college degree are drying up.
