Oded Galor – The Journey of Humanity

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Glenn Loury

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🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

0:00 Oded's new book, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality

7:58 How inequality and growth emerged over the course of human history

18:52 Breaking free of a 300,000-year-old stagnation cycle

27:24 Humanity's phase shift into modernity

33:39 Inequality and the formation of institutions

44:18 The deep links between geography and institutions

50:38 Africa, Asia, and the trials of diversity

Recorded January 21, 2023

Links and Readings

Oded’s new book, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality

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0:42.4	Thank you.
0:46.4	Hello, Odette.
0:47.4	How are you?
0:48.4	I'm very well and I'm delighted to be a guest in your show.
0:55.3	Thank you.
0:56.3	This is Glendlauri and you have tuned in to the glendshow at substac.com and at YouTube.
1:02.2	The glendshow is sponsored by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research in New York City,
1:07.2	where I am John Paulson Senior Fellow.
1:10.0	And I'm with Odette Gallor, who I'm happy to report as my colleague at Brown University
1:16.3	in the Economics Department.
1:17.3	He's the Herbert Goldberg Professor of Economics, a very distinguished scholar whose new book
1:24.9	is about a year or so, is called The Journey of Humanity and Odette has been kind enough
1:31.9	to agree to spend some time talking with me here about the book, which I gather has
1:38.1	been published in many languages, Odette.
1:41.7	Indeed.
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