Martin Grary is a former CIA analyst and author of the Revolt of the Public. He says information technologies have enabled people from nowhere to break power of political hierarchies. Econ Talk will be available on econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find others related to today's conversation.
Author Martin Gurri, Visiting Fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center, talks about his book The Revolt of the Public with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Gurri argues that a digital tsunami--the increase in information that the web provides--has destabilized authority and many institutions. He talks about the amorphous nature of recent populist protest movements around the world and where we might be headed politically and culturally.