Persecution, Toleration, and the Rise of Modernity: An Interview with Historian Mark Koyama
Tides of History
Audible / Patrick Wyman
4.7 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Religious freedom is a core value of the modern West, but how did it emerge, and why does it matter? Economic historian Mark Koyama, of George Mason University, joins me to discuss his recent book (co-authored with Noel Johnson), Persecution and Toleration: The Long Road to Religious Freedom.
Check out the book here, and follow Professor Koyama on Twitter @MarkKoyama.
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| 0:06.2 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:16.6 | From Wondery, welcome to another episode of Tides of History. |
| 0:19.7 | As always, I'm your host, Patrick Weiman. |
| 0:21.7 | Thanks for joining me. |
| 0:22.9 | So if you've been following the show lately, you know how interested I've been in economic |
| 0:26.8 | history. |
| 0:27.8 | We've recently chatted with a bunch of economic historians about everything from guilds to |
| 0:31.4 | the Roman Empire. |
| 0:32.5 | So along those lines, we've got a great guest for you here today. |
| 0:35.3 | He's an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a senior scholar |
| 0:39.2 | at the Mercatus Center. |
| 0:40.6 | He's the author of numerous working papers and articles and recently co-authored a book |
| 0:44.6 | with Noel Johnson entitled Persecution and Toleration, The Long Road to Religious Freedom, |
| 0:49.7 | which I found to be really interesting and can't wait to chat more about. |
| 0:53.6 | Professor Mark Kojama, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 0:55.6 | Thank you, Patrick. |
| 0:56.6 | Looking forward to that. |
| 0:57.7 | So Persecution and Toleration is a deep and fascinating book. |
| 1:00.5 | It has a lot to say about a lot of different things, but its argument is really pretty |
| 1:04.2 | straightforward. |
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