Arnold Kling on Morality, Culture, and Tribalism

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🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Economist and author Arnold Kling talks about the economic impact of culture and morality with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Drawing on a recent essay on the importance of social interactions, Kling explores the role of culture and norms and their broad impact on economic life. At the end of the conversation, Roberts discusses the implications of human sociality for the way economics is taught and the way economists think about public policy.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:12.6	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:17.6	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:20.5	We'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going
0:24.8	back to 2006.
0:27.0	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:29.6	We'd love to hear from you.
0:31.4	Today's June 19, 2018, and my guest is economist and author Arnold Kling.
0:40.0	His most recent appearance on Econ Talk was earlier this year in March, discussing economics
0:44.4	for the 21st century.
0:46.8	Our topic for today is a recent essay of Arnold's at medium.com called Human Beans or Social.
0:53.3	Arnold, welcome back to Econ Talk.
0:55.1	Thanks, Russ.
0:56.4	The opening lines of your essay read, human beings are social, but that does not invalidate
1:03.4	economics or justify socialism.
1:06.6	Now, I'm not so sure about the economics part of that statement, and I want to come back
1:10.1	to that in a little bit.
1:12.4	But I want to focus on where you turn next, which is to our tribal nature.
1:18.8	Talk about what you mean by our tribalism and how it tells us something about the evolution
1:23.8	of humanity and human cooperation.
1:28.6	Okay, so we can talk about us being social in a couple of senses.
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