Michael Munger on Constitutions

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🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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More than we need rules, argues Michael Munger, we need rules about the rules. So does the United States need a new Constitution? Listen as the Duke University economist and political scientist talks to host Russ Roberts about public choice, consenting to coercion, and whether constitutions matter.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.8	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:12.7	Institution.
0:13.7	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.4	You'll also find our archives, but every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.6	Today is December 1, 2021.
0:39.4	I'm, I guess, the inimitable Michael Munger of Duke University.
0:44.0	This is Mike's 40th, yes, count him 40th, up here at sunny con talk.
0:49.8	Easily all time record for most appearances on the program by a guest.
0:53.2	He was last here in August of 2021 talking about free markets.
0:58.2	Mike, welcome back to econtalk.
0:59.8	It is great to be on econtalk.
1:01.9	Thank you.
1:03.9	Our topic for today is constitutions, changing constitutions, doing without them, writing
1:11.4	one, whether they're important.
1:14.2	And we're going to start with a little bit of, for background, the role that constitutions
1:18.8	play in the theory of public choice.
1:22.5	And we might start by reminding readers and viewers what public choice is since it's
1:28.0	a term that sounds like one thing.
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