Though questions will come from members of the audience, CNN’s description of the event offers some indication of what questions viewers can expect. 

We must not let alarm drive us to desperate measures that could create the desperate times they are supposed to prevent.

What is it about the global food system and the process of economic development that delivers the wrong price of healthy and unhealthy foods in so many settings?

Many proposed solutions to society’s problems produce unintended consequences. Some laws passed in good faith, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, have adverse effects on the very people they intend to help. Join James Harrigan and Antony Davies as they dive into the unforeseeable results of mixing good intentions with public policy and more on this week’s episode of Words & Numbers.

The nature of politics creates fascinating and challenging incentives both for political decision-makers such as politicians and government bureaucrats *and* for voters who aren't always as knowledgeable or rational as many of us would like to believe.