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🗓️ 20 August 2018
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty. |
0:08.0 | I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution. |
0:12.6 | Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find |
0:17.6 | links and other information related to today's conversation. |
0:20.5 | We'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going |
0:24.8 | back to 2006. |
0:27.0 | Our email address is mailadycontalk.org. |
0:29.0 | We'd love to hear from you. |
0:31.0 | Today is August 6, 2018. |
0:35.6 | And my guest is political scientist Lillianne Mason of the University of Maryland. |
0:40.3 | She is the author of Uncivil Agreement, How Politics Became Our Identity, which is our |
0:46.0 | topic for today. |
0:47.0 | Lillianne, welcome to Econ Talk. |
0:49.2 | Thank you so much for having me. |
0:50.6 | In a recent Econ Talk episode that we'll link to, I did a monologue on the tribal nature |
0:56.3 | politics and the decline in civility. |
0:59.5 | In your book, it takes us, I think, quite a bit deeper into those ideas and really gives |
1:05.0 | them insight into what's been changing, which I think is the biggest challenge. |
1:08.1 | I think a lot of people understand that things seem a little bit different. |
1:11.6 | Question is why and what has changed. |
1:14.4 | And let's start with a story that you tell at the beginning of your book, the Robert's |
1:19.4 | Cave Experiment. |
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