Michael Munger on Slavery and Racism

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🗓️ 22 August 2016

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Michael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how attitudes in the American South toward slavery evolved over time and what we can learn from that evolution about the role culture plays in our lives.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:09.3	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:13.8	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
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0:25.9	going back to 2006.
0:28.3	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:30.8	We'd love to hear from you.
0:34.6	Today's July 7th, 2016, and my guest is the great Michael Munger of Duke University,
0:41.8	making his record extending, I think, 30th appearance on econ talk.
0:46.6	Michael, welcome back.
0:47.8	It is great to be here.
0:49.4	I just had my 30th winning anniversary two days ago, but of course, the 30th appearance
0:54.4	on econ talk is an even bigger event.
0:56.8	Yeah, I was going to say which is more meaningful to you.
0:59.0	I think there's no question which one.
1:00.9	Yeah, and I didn't mean it was your interview your wife.
1:03.8	I'd like to get her perspective on this as well.
1:07.1	That is so never going to happen.
1:11.5	Our topic for today is a little unusual.
1:14.4	We're going to take a look at a paper that you co-authored with Jeffrey Grinvicki that
1:18.9	is forthcoming in the journal Social Philosophy and Policy, and the paper is called Reconstructing
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