Matthew Crawford on Why We Drive

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🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Author Matthew Crawford talks about his book Why We Drive with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The conversation is about driving but also much more: how human beings interact with technology and what we gain and give up when we embrace technology driven by corporate profit-seeking.

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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.
0:11.0	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find links
0:16.3	and other information related to today's conversation.
0:19.0	You'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going
0:23.3	back to 2006.
0:25.5	For email address ismailodycontalk.org. We'd love to hear from you.
0:32.0	Today is December 1, 2020. My guest is author Matthew Crawford.
0:36.1	He is a senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Studies
0:39.9	and Culture and author of Shop Class as Soulcraft.
0:44.0	His latest book in the subject of day's conversation is Why We Drive Toward a Philosophy of the
0:49.7	Open Road.
0:51.1	This is an homage to driving and cars, but it's about a lot more than driving.
0:55.8	It's just at a deep meditation on how we might think about a relationship to technology
1:00.4	and regulation.
1:02.1	Matthew, welcome to Econ Talk.
1:04.6	Thanks for having me, Russ.
1:06.0	Let's start with the role of serendipity in life and in driving.
1:12.1	You're a fan of it.
1:13.5	Tell me why.
1:14.5	Why is serendipity, and for maybe some of our non-English speaking listeners, what is
1:20.2	serendipity?
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