Terry Moe on Educational Reform, Katrina, and Hidden Power

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🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Political Scientist and author Terry Moe of Stanford University talks about his book, The Politics of Institutional Reform with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Moe explores the politics and effectiveness of educational reform in the New Orleans public school system in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Moe finds that policy-makers turned to charter schools for pragmatic reasons and students enjoyed dramatic improvements in educational outcomes as a result. Moe uses this experience to draw lessons about political reforms generally and the power of vested interests to preserve the status quo in the absence of catastrophic events like Katrina.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.7	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:12.3	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:17.3	links and other information related to today's conversation.
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0:24.4	going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:29.2	We'd love to hear from you.
0:31.1	Today is November 1st, 2019.
0:35.7	And my guest is political scientist and author Terry Moe, the William Bennett Monroe
0:40.4	Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and a senior fellow and colleague of mine
0:44.5	at Stanford's Hoover Institution.
0:47.0	His latest book in the subject of today's conversation is The Politics of Institutional
0:51.3	Reform, Katrina Education, and the Second Face of Power.
0:56.5	This is Terry Second, appearance on the program.
0:58.4	He was here in September of 2016 to discuss the Constitution and the presidency.
1:03.8	Terry, welcome back to Econ Talk.
1:05.4	Yeah, great to be with you.
1:08.2	This is a really, it's a very short book.
1:11.4	I love short books that I learned a lot from in that was the case with this book.
1:16.6	It taught me a lot of insights into not just what happened in New Orleans, which I knew a
1:21.8	little about, but not so much.
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