Dan Klein on The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Episode 5--A Discussion of Parts III (cont.), IV, and V

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🗓️ 13 May 2009

⏱️ 91 minutes

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This is the fifth podcast in the EconTalk Book Club discussion of The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith. In this episode, Dan Klein of George Mason University and EconTalk host Russ Roberts finish discussing Part III, and discuss Parts IV and V of the book.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:12.5	I'm your host Russ Roberts of George Mason University and Stanford University's Hoover
0:17.3	Institution.
0:18.7	Our website is econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, find other episodes, comment on this podcast,
0:25.8	and find links to other information related to today's conversation.
0:29.9	Our email address is mailadicontalk.org.
0:33.6	We'd love to hear from you.
0:39.0	Welcome back to the Econ Talk Book Club on the Theory of Moral Sentiments with our guide,
0:43.5	Dan Klein.
0:44.5	Dan, thanks again for joining us.
0:47.3	My pleasure.
0:48.7	Our last podcast, we were trying to get through parts three, four, and five.
0:53.2	We got through part of part three.
0:55.5	We might try to go a little faster today, we'll see.
0:58.2	So our goal today is to finish up at least part three.
1:02.6	I'm pretty confident we're going to do that.
1:04.1	We hope to get to parts four and five, maybe into part six, but as we learned last time,
1:09.0	the pace is not exactly under our control.
1:11.7	It's a coordination problem between two partial spectators of each other, trying to harmonize
1:16.4	Dan and I, and we'll see how it goes.
1:19.1	Dan, over to you to start talking about part three, chapter four.
1:25.2	Is that correct?
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