What convinces people to act in the interest of others? (with Margaret Levi)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Civic Ventures

Business, Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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What does it take for someone to act in the interest of others? What constitutes trust in general, and trust in government in particular? Margaret Levi, a professor of political and behavioral sciences, shares her research on how people can be persuaded to act in the interest of others if they don’t already want to. The conversation covers vaccines, unions, citizen confidence in government, and a lot more. And make sure not to miss these Pitchfork-adjacent opportunities: Sign up for Econ Con, an upcoming progressive economy conference put on by our friends at the Groundwork Collaborative in partnership with other awesome organizations. It’s free, it’s online, and we’ll be there, so… what are you waiting for? Sign up here: https://econcon.com/ Nick is on TikTok! You have to see it for yourself to believe it: https://www.tiktok.com/@realnickhanauer Sign up for our new weekly newsletter, The Pitch: https://civicventures.substack.com/ Margaret Levi is the Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Professor of Political Science, and Senior Fellow of the Woods Institute, Stanford University. She is Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. One of her most recent books, In the Interest of Others (Princeton, 2013), co-authored with John Ahlquist, explores how organizations provoke member willingness to act beyond material interest. In other work, she investigates the conditions under which people come to believe their governments are legitimate and the consequences of those beliefs for compliance, consent, and the rule of law. Twitter: @margaretlevi Margaret Levi: Citizen confidence in government - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBbq7izCslU&ab_channel=WZBlive In the Interest of Others: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691158563/in-the-interest-of-others Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com/ Twitter: @PitchforkEcon Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics Nick’s twitter: @NickHanauer

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0:00.0	Trust is eroding in the United States of America
0:06.5	into a certain extent around the world.
0:08.8	We have to create whole new mechanisms
0:12.2	in terms of communicating what's going on,
0:15.6	hearing where people are coming from.
0:18.3	If you don't feel like you're being treated justly,
0:20.7	reciprocally, you can't trust other people.
0:23.3	If you can't trust them, you can't cooperate.
0:25.7	It all comes down to trust.
0:30.0	From the home offices of civic ventures in downtown Seattle,
0:35.8	this is Pitchfork Economics, with Nick Hanauer,
0:39.0	the best place to get the truth about who gets what and why.
0:48.9	I'm Nick Hanauer, founder of Civic Ventures.
0:52.0	I'm David Goldstein, senior fellow at Civic Ventures.
1:00.1	Goldie, I cannot wait to talk to our guest today,
1:04.8	our friend Margaret Levy, who has been both so influential
1:09.2	and so helpful in our work on reimagining economics.
1:14.8	And she runs the Center for Advanced Study
1:18.3	and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford
1:20.4	and hosted Eric Binocker and I and you there.
1:24.9	Right as COVID was beginning to sort of analyze
1:28.8	the book that Eric and I are continuing to try to write.
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