Russ Roberts on Israel and Life as an Immigrant
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🗓️ 19 January 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In this special crossover special with EconTalk, Tyler interviews Russ Roberts about his new life in Israel as president of Shalem College. They discuss why there are so few new universities, managing teams in the face of linguistic and cultural barriers, how Israeli society could adapt to the loss of universal military service, why Israeli TV is so good, what American Jews don’t understand about life in Israel, what his next leadership challenge will be, and much more.
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Recorded December 23rd, 2021
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| 0:59.6 | Today is December 23rd 2021, and today's episode of e-con talk is also being released |
| 1:05.2 | as an episode of Conversations with Tyler. I am speaking with Tyler Cowan of George Mason, |
| 1:10.5 | who blogs at Margin Revolution, podcasts at Conversations with Tyler. It's his 14th appearance here |
| 1:17.4 | on the program. He was last here in April of 2021 talking about the pandemic. We're going to do |
| 1:22.7 | something a little unusual today. We're going to talk about what it's like to be an immigrant, |
| 1:25.9 | using my move to Israel this year as a way to launch the conversation. As my listeners know, |
| 1:30.3 | and to let listeners at Conversations with Tyler know, I came to Israel to be president |
| 1:34.8 | of Shalem College, a small liberal arts college here in Jerusalem. And finally, I want to encourage |
| 1:40.3 | you, contact listeners to go to our homepage to vote on your favorite episodes of 2021. Tyler, |
| 1:45.5 | welcome back to e-con talk. Russ, thank you very much for having me. I'm so curious about your |
| 1:50.8 | new ventures. Let me start with a general question. In the mature economies, why aren't there more |
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