Glenn Loury's Intellectual Origins, Part 2 (Glenn Loury & Daniel Bessner)

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🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Glenn's rightward shift in the early 80s ... A feeling of alienation from the Black elite ... Glenn and Daniel discuss neoliberalism and the "American empire" ... Glenn's emergence as a public intellectual ... How Glenn earned a unique place in public discourse ... Glenn's hiatus from and return to economic theory ... How Glenn helped coin the term "social capital" ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from blogging Heads TV.
0:05.0	Hey Daniel, how are you?
0:10.0	I'm good, Glenn. Thanks again for having me back.
0:13.0	You're welcome. This is Glenn Lowry, the Glenn Show with bloggingheads. TV.
0:17.0	And I'm with Daniel Bessemer, who's assistant professor at the Henry Jackson School of International Studies at the University of
0:25.0	University of Washington.
0:26.0	And we are going to have a conversation.
0:28.0	This is part two of Daniels interview
0:31.0	of me about my intellectual origins.
0:33.0	Part 1, posted at the Glenn Show two weeks ago.
0:36.6	This is part 2.
0:38.3	So I'm going to turn the microphone over to Daniel.
0:40.5	He's going to interview me and we're
0:42.4	going to have conversation.
0:44.0	But thanks so much, Daniel, for being willing to play this role.
0:49.0	Yeah, I really appreciate the opportunity again.
0:52.0	So let's just get started.
0:54.1	So last time I think we covered very well
0:57.0	the appeal of economics and sort of the appeal
0:59.0	of this epistemology, if you will,
1:00.6	and in some sense an ontology to approaching the world.
1:03.0	And we talked a little bit about politics, and you basically described yourself as like a standard
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