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SUMMARY:Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures “New & Noted” – Alex Mayyasi & Erika Beras
DESCRIPTION:Get your tickets HERE. Please note that this is a paid event; tickets for this event come with a free copy of the book\, PLANET MONEY. \n\nBook Launch and Live Taping\nJoin the team behind the popular podcast ‘Planet Money’ and celebrate the publication of their new book\, PLANET MONEY: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life. \nBook author and longtime contributor Alex Mayyasi and co-host Erika Beras bring Planet Money’s signature brand of storytelling to the stage and discuss some highlights from the new book\, including unlikely origin stories\, revealing truths about human behavior\, and insightful suggestions for navigating chaotic times drawn from the latest ideas in economics. \nKevin Zollman\, Herbert A. Simon Professor of Philosophy and Social and Decision Sciences and Director\, Institute for Complex Social Dynamics at Carnegie Mellon\, will be the special guest interview this evening. \nCome prepared to engage with the silly and the sublime and ask some questions of your favorite Planet Money hosts and reporters. \n\nAlex Mayyasi is a longtime contributor to Planet Money and the author of Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life (April 2026). Previously he was the founding editor of Gastro Obscura\, which earned two James Beard Awards and published a bestselling travel book\, and a writer and editor at Priceonomics. \nHis writing on business and economics has appeared in publications such as Smithsonian\, the Washington Post\, and The Atlantic. Mayyasi also consults for the University of Chicago economics department. He’s the co-author of You Are Under Arrest for Masterminding the Egyptian Revolution (a Memoir). \nErika Beras is a reporter and host for NPR’s Planet Money podcast. Prior to joining the team in 2021 she spent four years as a reporter at Marketplace. As a freelancer\, she was a regular contributor to Scientific American podcasts and filed stories for NPR’s Morning Edition\, All Things Considered and Latino USA. She also contributed to PRI’s The World\, the BBC and Monocle 24 Radio and wrote stories for National Geographic and NewYorker.com. Before that\, she spent a decade as a staff reporter for NPR Member station WESA and at The Miami Herald. \nHer reporting has taken her places as varied as The Democratic Republic of Congo\, Switzerland and Erie\, Pennsylvania. Beras is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer and a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. A native Spanish speaker\, she grew up in New York City and lives in Pittsburgh.
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