Philip Auerswald on the Rise of Populism

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🗓️ 25 September 2017

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Author and professor Philip Auerswald of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the rise of populism in the United States and throughout the world. Auerswald argues that the rise of cities and the productivity of urban life has created a divergence in experience and rewards between urban and rural areas around the world. Auerswald ties these changes to changes in voting patterns and speculates about the sources of the increasing productivity of metropolitan areas.

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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
0:18.9	links and other information related to today's conversation.
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0:26.1	back to 2006.
0:28.3	Before you mail address ismailadycontalk.org, we'd love to hear from you.
0:34.6	Today is September 5th, 2017.
0:36.3	My guest is Philip Hourswald, a professor at George Mason University at the Sharer School
0:41.2	of Policy and Government.
0:43.2	His latest book is the Code Economy of 40,000 Year History.
0:47.5	From Oxford University Press, he currently serves as Co-Chair and Executive Director of
0:51.3	the Global Entrepreneurship Research Network, initiative of the Kaufman Foundation, and
0:56.0	he is the co-founder and co-editor of Innovations, quarterly journal about entrepreneurial solutions
1:01.2	to global challenges published by MIT Press, Philip Welk and Econ Talk.
1:06.0	Great to be on.
1:07.5	Our topic for today is an article that you are recently at medium.com, which of course
1:12.2	we'll link to.
1:13.2	The title is The Origin of Populist Surges Everywhere, which is a pretty bold title.
1:19.8	You start your essay with a very provocative set of maps, which could alarm listeners
1:26.5	who can't see them.
1:27.5	They're welcome to go to the essay, of course, but we're going to, I think, describe them
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