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Welcome to episode four of the Econ Talk Book Club on Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral

Sentiments.

Our guide, again, is Dan Klein.

Dan thanks for being part of this book club experience.

My pleasure.

And our topic for today are parts three, four, and five.

You can find online versions of the book, audio versions of the book, other resources at

econtalk.org slash bookclub.html, and along with previous episodes, of course.

And we'll be doing one more episode after this on the last part of the book, parts six

and seven.

I want to say as an introduction that the first two parts of the book that we talked about

in episodes two and three, I found a little bit slow and a little bit dry.

I enjoyed them, but it was hard going, especially the reading, the conversation, I enjoyed

a great deal, Dan, but the reading was a bit slow.

This part is totally different for me.

I found parts three and four and five to be utterly fascinating.

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