Keynes predicted we'd be working 15-hour weeks by now. So what went wrong? Does it even matter?

In this episode, Ben sits down with Dan Hamermesh, one of the most prolific and wide-ranging labor economists of the past half century, to explore questions the field rarely asks: Why do Americans work more than anyone else in the rich world? What do we actually do with leisure when we get it?

Topics covered:

• Why cutting work hours wouldn't make us poor, and why policy, not technology, might be the only realistic path to change
• The "greedy jobs" debate, and what's driving long hours at the top
• What people do with extra leisure time
• The coordination failure at the heart of overwork

About Dan Hamermesh: Dan Hamermesh is an economist whose career has spanned more than five decades ...