Lee Ohanian, Arnold Kling, and John Cochrane on the Future of Freedom, Democracy, and Prosperity

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🗓️ 13 July 2015

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Lee Ohanian, Arnold Kling, and John Cochrane talk with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the future of freedom, democracy, and prosperity. Recorded in front of a live audience at Stanford University's Hoover Institution as part of a conference on Magna Carta, the three guests give their perspective on the future of the American economy and the interaction between politics and economics. Each guest makes a brief presentation at the start followed by a moderated conversation.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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0:23.2	back to 2006.
0:25.4	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:27.9	We'd love to hear from you.
0:31.7	Today is June 25th, 2015, and we are recording this live at the Hoover Institution on the
0:38.0	campus of Stanford University.
0:40.0	My guests today are Leo Haney and John Cochran and Arnold Kling, gentlemen, and welcome
0:44.8	back to Econ Talk.
0:47.2	This is part of a Hoover conference on the 800th birthday of Magna Carta.
0:52.2	Our topic for today is the next 800 years, or maybe a little less, and I would remind
0:57.8	listeners who are interested, go back to the Nicholas Vincent episode of a little while
1:02.5	back, put a link up to it where you can get some background on the Magna Carta, and
1:07.5	in the last 800 years, we're going to try to look forward today at this session.
1:12.0	We're going to talk about the future of freedom, democracy, and prosperity.
1:16.6	Certainly, the spread of freedom and the restraints on political power that have emerged
1:21.0	over the last 800 years since Magna Carta have something to do with the prosperity and
1:26.5	freedom we've enjoyed over that time period.
1:29.1	What this session is about is what might be the future of prosperity and the political
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