Daron Acemoglu, V4.0: Rebooting Culture & Economics!

[@Djessie11]

Keep doing what you're doing Alice. This was a fascinating conversation.

[@Sokrabiades]

Ms Evans, you are all over the place!

[@malcolmspark]

Alice is a mystery, and I'm pleased that someone like Professor Daron Acemoglu thinks the same. A world wonder.

[@verydifferentthought]

Watching it from Uzbekistan!

[@hakanhabip1]

It would be helpful if a list of books, articles mentioned can be shared...

[@Decoy1138]

What naughty thing was edited out at 9:18?

[@aliceevans745]

Nothing was edited out. This is unadulterated content!

[@Decoy1138]

@@aliceevans745 Mind = b***n

[@Decoy1138]

@@aliceevans745 🤯

[@haykaghabekian7737]

I’m wondering if cultural backlashes are periodical, isn’t that predictable the amplitude of that and in case of Russia wasn’t current backlash predictable and is it predictable when opposite (positive) backlash happens?

[@Decoy1138]

Alice, at 25:10, did you mean to say the Jewish Museum in Warsaw instead of the Polish Museum? The rest of the sentence is seemingly unrelated to Jews otherwise

[@aliceevans745]

I meant the Polin Museum, which is Jewish, yes.

[@Decoy1138]

@@aliceevans745 Thanks!

[@hakanhabip1]

Does culture refer to a static state or a dynamic notion, such an action? Belonging to any ethnicity, creed, etc. for the most part, is a coincidence. This is the static part of culture. Politicians can manipulate the masses based on this, largely coincidental, attribute. Education systems, personal, family, community, national rituals often include elements of glorifying these attributes. These experiences make up our ego. Actions, on the other hand, are clear choices: speaking a language, eating an ethnic food, dancing, the way of dressing, etc. Humans are in conflict with each other based on coincidences rather than coming together in any of the actions above due to their own agency. It seems, highlighting/emphasizing the static perception of culture has been causing violence of sorts, highlighting the dynamic nature of culture may build bridges.

[@jusmeetsingh1907]

While describing Russia, I think you just described any average Western country there.. where people are ok with war and global supremacy as long as it is on periphery & doesn't affect them directly. Russia is just like America.. an oligarchic aggressive war-crime country with make-believe democracy. So so American 👌👌👍

[@visheshbansal3247]

Please call Kushal Mehra and Ashish Dhar to your podcast to speak about India and its social mores.

[@stefankotz2242]

Yeah but aren't all religions compatible with democracy. For each big religion there are some countries that are democracies and some that aren't. I don't get his point. It all feels so imprecise "culture" can mean soo many things, and culture always changes. It can explain anything and nothing. I have the same problem with "institutions" though. Particularly when he includes "informal" institutions, which again can mean almost any cultural practice.

[@lw4423]

the audio is sufficient, we don't really need to see

[@malcolmspark]

Unless, like me, I find myself continually reading the words even though I'm listening to what they are saying, so clearly for me vision is very important.