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  "id": 16622945,
  "title": "Odd Lots: The Forgotten Godmother of Economic Literature",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/odd-lots-the-forgotten-godmother-of-economic-literature",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-26T15:48:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Bloomberg",
    "slug": "bloomberg",
    "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-10-26/odd-lots-the-forgotten-godmother-of-economic-literature-video"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Regency-era novelist Maria Edgeworth was famous for including economic concepts into her novels, including the idea of productive labor. Her works were ahead of her time and enormously influential, yet her name is hardly ever mentioned in the history of economics. On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast, Jeanna Smialek, Brussels bureau chief at The New York Times, tells Joe Weisenthal and Tracy…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}