Passion Economy
Host: Adam Davidson
Category:
Business > Entrepreneurship
Economics & Finance > Personal Finance
Business > Entrepreneurship
Economics & Finance > Personal Finance
Ice Cream for Fun
Your Own Fulfilling Job
About the Podcast
The economy is bananas, even scary. But some people are thriving, and we're going to figure out how. Adam Davidson, "New Yorker" writer, longtime contributor to This American Life, and the creator of NPR’s "Planet Money," unearths stories from regular people. People who have cracked the code to success in our new economic reality.
About the Host
Adam Davidson
Adam Davidson is currently a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes The Financial Page column and contributes larger features and web stories. Previously, he was the “On Money” columnist and a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. He also co-founded and co-hosted National Public Radio’s “Planet Money,” after serving as the international business and economics correspondent for NPR.
He has been a frequent contributor to “This American Life,” including co-reporting the episode “The Giant Pool of Money,” which received the Peabody, DuPont-Columbia, and Polk Awards, and was named one of the top works of journalism of the decade by New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s, GQ, Rolling Stone, and other publications. He has has served as a technical consultant to Adam McKay, co-writer and director of the Academy Award-winning film “The Big Short.” His work is heard regularly on “Morning Edition,” “All Things Considered,” and he is a frequently featured guest on MSNBC, Meet The Press, Anderson Cooper 360, Good Morning America, and other television news shows.
He has covered major breaking news stories including on Haiti, the Indonesian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, Paris during the youth riots, and he spent a year in Baghdad, Iraq, from 2003 to 2004, producing award-winning reports on corruption in the US occupation.
