The continent nobody owns & everyone benefits from (Summer School)

Planet Money's Summer School wraps its twenty twenty-six season with a trip to Antarctica, the continent nobody owns but everyone benefits from. The episode revisits NPR's nineteen seventy-nine expedition to the South Pole, including a penguin interview, and checks in on McMurdo Station, where a former store manager describes how normal retail rules don't apply on the ice. An economist argues for putting a price on the continent's environmental services, and listeners from around the world share their own economic ideas as part of the graduation celebration.

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