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Welcome to the second episode of the Econ Talk Book Club on the Theory of Moral Sentiments

with Dan Klein at George Mason University.

Our first episode was an overview of key ideas in the book.

Today's podcast is focused on part one of the book.

Go to econtalk.org-bookclub.html to find an online version of the book, how to buy

the book if you want a hard copy and other resources.

And as an introduction to today's podcast, I should mention, and this was a Dan suggestion,

I think it's an excellent suggestion, that this is going to be a very different type of

podcast than we usually have.

We're going to try to work systematically through a work of greatness that has all kinds

of implications for how people thought and behaved and how we think.

And so Dan suggested you might listen to it a little bit differently, as he put it,

you might want to adjust your notion of propriety to use some of Adam Smith's language.

So we'll see how this goes, this is our first time doing anything like this, and I'm

very excited about it.

Dan, welcome back.

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