Building things and breaking things in China (Summer School World Tour)

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Vocabulary Review, Book Recommendations, and Outro

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The episode winds down with the Summer School tradition of a vocabulary review to prepare listeners for the end-of-semester quiz. Smith asks Wang to define each term in a sentence: the engineering state is about literal-minded building that treats people as construction material; malinvestment is 'too many roads and bridges to nowhere'; and 'Socialism with Chinese Characteristics' gets Wang's best one-liner: 'Whatever the Communist Party says is correct.' ^{[1] — Dan Wang "Whatever the Communist Party says is correct." 39:56 Play} Smith recommends both Dan Wang's 'Breakneck' and Planet Money's own book before rolling the credits (produced by Sofia Paliza-Carre, edited by Alex Goldmark, fact-checked by Sierra Juarez, engineered by Maggie Luthar). A brief outro teaser announces the next World Tour destination: Busia, Kenya — 'the small town that taught the world a better way to do economics.' Two more short ad spots for NetSuite and NPR's Up First podcast close out the episode.