Cass Sunstein on #Republic

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🗓️ 15 May 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Author and legal scholar Cass Sunstein of Harvard University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, #Republic. Sunstein argues that the internet has encouraged people to frequent informational echo chambers where their views are reinforced and rarely challenged. In addition, there is a loss of public space where people might have to encounter dissonant ideas or causes they might wish to champion. Sunstein considers this a threat to democracy and discusses a variety of ways the situation might improve.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.5	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:13.1	Our website is econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:18.1	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:21.0	You'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done
0:25.2	going back to 2006.
0:27.5	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:30.0	We'd love to hear from you.
0:31.6	Today is April 20, 2017, and my guest is Cass Sunstein, the Robert Wombsley University
0:40.7	professor at Harvard Law School from 2009 to 2012.
0:45.4	He was administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and
0:50.8	he's the founder and director of the program on behavioral economics and public policy
0:54.5	at Harvard Law.
0:55.5	Author of many books and articles, his latest, at least I think it's his latest, he writes
1:00.2	so many, it's hard to know, which is the latest, but his latest is hashtag republic, and
1:05.4	he was a guest on econtalk in May and November of 2007, which seems like a very, very long
1:12.4	time ago.
1:13.4	Cass, welcome back to econtalk.
1:14.4	It is great to be back.
1:17.3	Is this indeed your latest book?
1:19.6	I think so.
1:20.8	There's something else in the pipeline that this qualifies as the latest.
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