Moshe Koppel on Norms, Tradition, and Resilient Societies

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🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Traditions and norms can seem at best out-of-touch and at worst offensive to many a modern mind. But Israeli computer scientist and Talmud scholar Moshe Koppel argues that traditions and norms--if they evolve slowly--create trust, develop our capacity for deferred gratification, and even, in the case of how we prepare cassava, protect us from poisoning. Listen as the author of Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures talks with EconTalk Russ Roberts about tradition, religion, tribalism, resilience, and emergent order.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:13.0	Institution.
0:14.0	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.
0:21.6	You'll also find our archives with 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.
0:37.8	Today is December 29th, 2021.
0:39.6	I'm, I guess, is Moshe, Capell of Barri Lawn University.
0:43.2	He's a mathematician, computer scientist and founder of the Cohellet Policy Forum,
0:49.3	which is an Israeli think tank.
0:51.7	We're going to talk today about a Hayekian bottom of elusive morality versus alternatives.
0:57.8	Whether this should be a role for tradition and thinking about how to live, we may also
1:02.5	get into his efforts to create a constitution for Israel and whether that's a good idea,
1:07.3	although I doubt we'll have time, but that's one of Moshe's small side projects.
1:11.4	We're going to base the conversation around his recent book, Judaism Straight Up, Why
1:15.4	Real Religion in Doors, which is a Hayekian defensive religion as an emergent phenomenon.
1:21.1	I also want to listen as this episode may get into some adult themes.
1:25.0	I want to remind listeners to go to econtalk.org and vote for your favorite episodes of 2021.
1:30.4	Moshe, welcome to econtalk.
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