Anthony Gill on Religion

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🗓️ 6 January 2014

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Anthony Gill of the University of Washington and host of the podcast Research on Religion talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economics of religion. The conversation focuses on the relationship between religion and the State--how does religion respond to a State-sanctioned monopoly? Why do some governments allow religious liberty while others deny it? The conversation concludes with a discussion of how property rights interact with religious freedom.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty. I'm your host Russ Roberts
0:07.8	of Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Our website is econtalk.org where you can
0:13.6	subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find links and other information related to today's
0:18.1	conversation. We'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever
0:22.7	done going back to 2006. Our email address is mailadycontalk.org. We'd love to hear from you.
0:32.0	Today is December 23rd 2013 and my guest is Anthony Gill. He is a professor of political science
0:39.5	and sociology at the University of Washington. A distinguished research scholar at Baylor University's
0:46.0	Institute for Studies of Religion. His latest book is the Political Origins of Religious Liberty
0:51.3	and his host of the podcast Research on Religion, which is simulcasting this episode of e-contalk.
0:57.6	Tony, welcome to e-contalk. It is an honor to be here Russ. And before getting started, I want to
1:03.6	mention that if all goes well, this is the first e-contalk episode of 2014. And I'd like to hear
1:09.9	from you out there in the listening audience about your favorite episodes of 2013. So send me an
1:15.1	email with a list of your five favorite episodes. They don't have to be in order, but it's episodes
1:20.0	not guests. So if you like Mike Munger, for example, you have to pick and choose which episode of
1:24.6	his is your favorite. I think you can put more than one in the top five if you'd like. Send in
1:29.4	me an email at mailatekontalk.org and put favorites in the subject line. And after a few weeks,
1:36.6	we'll tally the results and release them via Facebook, Twitter. You can follow me there at e-contalker
1:42.0	and my blog, Cafe Hayek. Now for today's conversation with Anthony Gill on the economics of religion.
1:48.0	I want to start by putting this in perspective. Economists and political scientists don't pay a lot
1:53.6	of attention to religion as a subject worthy of study. Why do you think that is? That's a really
2:00.3	interesting question. And it seems to be a very big blind spot within economics, political science,
2:06.8	in a few other fields as well. And I'm amazed that when I first started my career at the University
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