EconTalk · 2026-08-03 · 88 min · 14,970 words

The Political Economy of Palestine (with Hussein Aboubakr Mansour)

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Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty. I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to econalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links and other information related to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econalk.org. We'd love to hear from you. Today's june thirtieth, twenty twenty six, and my guest is author Hussein Abu Bakr Mansoor of Jinsa, the Jewish Institute. for national security of America, his sub stack.

is the Abrahamic Metacritique. And our topic for today is a rather extraordinary essay he wrote there. The title was A Metacritique of Palestine on the Political Economii. of a word symbol. You're saying welcome to Econ Talk.

Thank you, Russ. My pleasure. Uh now I want to say something before we start, and that is that Інопастан Which is a rich, complicated

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