Episode 254 - A History of Corporate Capture
Bad Faith
Bad Faith
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Harvard Law & Economics Professor (and Briahna's favorite teacher) Jon Hanson joins Bad Faith to offer a firsthand lesson on the legal theories, economic principles, and social psychology that explain how our legal system and our democracy became so corrupted. In a sweeping conversation, Hanson explains how low liability standards all but ensure disasters like the East Palestine derailment occur, and what could be done to change that reality. As Briahna has mentioned on the podcast time and time again, Professor Hanson's Corporate Law & Tort Law classes were formative moments in her political evolution. She's thrilled to share some of those lessons on today's pod. She paid 180k for law school so you could get these lessons for free.
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Produced by Armand Aviram.
Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).
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| 0:16.0 | . Okay, bad faith, listeners, faithful, as it were, I am so excited to have a guest on today |
| 0:47.5 | whom I've alluded to innumerable times as one of the most formidable foundational professors in my life. |
| 0:57.2 | Someone who is teaching impacted my political development, perhaps more than any other |
| 1:03.4 | kind of single moment in my educational career. |
| 1:07.4 | It's Professor John Hanson. |
| 1:09.2 | He's the Alan A. Stone Professor of Law and Director of the Systemic Justice Project at Harvard Law School. Welcome to Bad Faith Podcast, Professor Hanson. |
| 1:18.6 | Thank you, Brianna. First of all, I just would like to end the podcast now. I think that is a perfect place to end. |
| 1:25.6 | It will only go down from here. And second of all, |
| 1:31.4 | you must call me, John, if you can tolerate it. I think I can muster it up. It's a hard |
| 1:36.1 | habit to break, but I'll do my best. Now, you, you joke that this is going to go down |
| 1:41.8 | hill from here. And I know that you were a little reluctant to |
| 1:44.2 | come on. I've been begging you for a while now, but I don't understand why because I'm like reading |
| 1:48.9 | your intro here off the Harvard Law site. And you've won like the teacher of the year. There's like |
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