Chris Arnade on Dignity

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🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Photographer, author, and former Wall St. trader Chris Arnade talks about his book, Dignity, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Arnade quit his Wall Street trading job and criss-crossed America photographing and getting to know the addicted and homeless who struggle to find work and struggle to survive. The conversation centers on what Arnade learned about Americans and about himself.

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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.
0:29.0	We'd love to hear from you.
0:31.0	Today is June 7th, 2019.
0:35.4	And my guest is writer, photographer, former Wall Street trader and author Chris Arnotti.
0:41.6	Chris was a guest on e-con talk in October of 2016, talking about the Mexican financial
0:46.0	crisis.
0:47.0	Today we're talking about his new book, Dignity, Seeking Respect in Back Row America.
0:52.1	Chris, welcome back to e-con talk.
0:54.0	Thank you for having me.
0:56.8	I want to let parents listening with children know that this episode will almost certainly
1:00.3	touch on a number of adult themes, so you may want to screen it before listening with
1:03.9	your children.
1:04.9	Chris, you've written a very powerful book that I think has a chance to spark a national
1:09.2	conversation about the people who are not part of the progress that we've seen in America
1:14.5	over the last few decades.
1:16.0	People who sometimes are described as left behind, you describe them as people in the
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