The Status Game (with Will Storr)

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We'd love to hear from you. Today is October 16th, 2025, and my guest is author Will Storr. Our topic for today is his book, The Status Game. Will, welcome to Econ Talk. Thanks for having me, Ross.

It's good to be here. So this book, uh, Econ Talk listeners will recognize the echo of Adam Smith's uh theory of moral sentiments. Uh, my favorite quote being, man naturally desires not only to be loved, but to be lovely. That is, we care about earning the respect of other people and uh we like to matter. And we like to be admired and we like to be uh we like to earn that, honestly, if we can, but we sometimes fool ourselves.

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