Can a "moneyball" system work for campaign funding?
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Can a "moneyball" system work for campaign funding?

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 22, 20268 min
  • Politics

Elections are more expensive than ever, but are campaign donations going to the races where they’ll make the most impact? Today, we talk to the startup co-founder of Oath who believes there’s a smarter way to allocate individual donations. Fact checking by Sierra Juarez. Your Next Listen –How did political campaigns get so expensive? –Over 2,000 episodes in our archive on the NPR App Connect with The Indicator from Planet Money –The Indicator newsletter — a weekly roundup of news, ideas and staff picks. –Instagram, TikTok and YouTube –Find the Planet Money...

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N.P.R. Adrian, the World Series starts tomorrow. Baseball. Baseball.

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I marked the occasion by rewatching Moneyball, the movie based on the Michael Lewis book about economics and data analytics in Major League Baseball. Okay, people who run ball clubs, they think in terms of buying players. Your goal shouldn't be to buy players.

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Your goal should be to buy wins. Of course, I remember this movie, Econ Nerd's favorite sports movie. It dramatizes how the Oakland A started buying wins more efficiently by spending their money on undervalued players where they could get more bang for their buck.

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