Measuring the costs of incarceration with Arpit Gupta

Today’s conversation is with Arpit Gupta, an Associate Professor of Finance at NYU Stern.

Arpit runs a newsletter called Arpitrage (clever!) in which he researches fascinating ideas that almost nobody is paying attention to.

In this episode, we explore two topics in detail:

* How Finance Killed Democracy

* Incarceration’s Social Spillovers

Expect to learn why wealth inequality has increased (20:34), how to protect yourself from inflation (38:53), how a judge’s strictness can impact students’ test scores (41:31), why we might be completely wrong about how to reduce crime (51:24), and much more.

Enjoy!

Timestamps:

(0:42): Arpit’s research style.

(6:13): How Finance Killed Democracy.

(40:13): Incarceration’s Social Spillovers.