Gregory Clark on Social Mobility, Migration, and Assortative Mating (Live at Mercatus)
Listen to the original audio · Transcribed with NVIDIA Parakeet · Timestamps stay in sync with the live audio
Conversations with Tyler is produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Bridging the gap between academic ideas and real world problems. Learn more at Mercadus.org For a full transcript of every conversation,
Enhanced with helpful links. Visit conversationswither.com Hello everyone, and welcome back to Conversations with Tyler. Today I am chatting live with Greg Clark, the economic historian. I think it's fair to say that Greg is the most interesting and most influential economic historian of the last twenty years.
His book from two thousand seven, A Farewell to Alms. presented a new theory of economic growth, human progress, and the industrial revolution. I ended up as one of the blurbers and I called it As I wrote in the New York Times, the next blockbuster in economics. His book after that.
We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (83 minutes, 13,530 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.
No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 5 episodes for $3.49, and monthly plans are cheaper still.