Noreena Hertz on the Lonely Century

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🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Author and economist Noreena Hertz of University College London talks about her book, The Lonely Century, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Hertz blames social media and the individualist, pro-capitalism worldviews of leaders like Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan for the rise in loneliness in the developed world. Russ suggests some alternative causes. The result is a lively conversation about understanding and explaining social trends.

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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
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0:33.8	Today is August 26, 2021 and my guest is author and professor, Norina Hertz, of University
0:43.3	College London.
0:44.3	Her latest book is the Lonely Century.
0:47.5	Coming together in a world that's pulling apart, Norina, welcome to econtalk.
0:51.8	Thank you for having me on, Russ.
0:53.7	Well, let's start with a really simple basic question.
0:56.7	Actually not so simple as it turns out.
0:58.7	What do you mean by loneliness?
1:00.7	You mentioned really on the book that you're going to give a broader user-broadder definition
1:04.7	that is commonly used.
1:05.7	So what is your underlying concept that you're talking about in this book?
1:09.7	When I talk about loneliness, what I'm talking about is a sense of feeling disconnected,
1:16.7	disconnected from friends, from family, from those closest you.
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