The Most Persuasive Story Wins, Not the Highest Score

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Martin Gurry: Persuasion is something that I studied very deeply, both when I was in government and afterwards. He says the elites are still living in the 20th century; they desperately want to get back there. At some point, just generationally, it's going to change and you're going to have both elites and the public in the digital age, he says. EconTalk will be on Monday at 8 p.m. ET (11 a.m. GMT)

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.