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	Podcast:		EconTalk
	Episode:		Johnathan Bi on Mimesis and Rene Girard
	Category:		Education
	Duration:		01:11:47
	Publish Date:		2022-11-21 11:30:00
	Description:		When the 20-year-old overachiever Johnathan Bi's first startup crashed and burned, he headed to a Zen retreat in the Catskills to "debug himself." He discovered Rene Girard and his mimetic theory--the idea that imitation is a key and often unconscious driver of human behavior. Listen as entrepreneur and philosopher Bi shares with EconTalk host Russ Roberts what he learned from Girard and Girard's insights into how we meet our primal need for money, fame, and power. The conversation includes the contrasts between economics and Girard's perspective.
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