The Econtack Drinking Game

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I don't think there's a commissioner who decides the rules. I'm in favor of the designated hitter, but ive now changed my view on that. There's an americanle version of the drinking game where i have to say it, if the guest says it's not a drink, right? It's a splinter group. But let me just say, bese that ar as adam smith pointed out, ou know, we don't just wish to be loved, we wish to be lovely.

Traditions and norms can seem at best out-of-touch and at worst offensive to many a modern mind. But Israeli computer scientist and Talmud scholar Moshe Koppel argues that traditions and norms--if they evolve slowly--create trust, develop our capacity for deferred gratification, and even, in the case of how we prepare cassava, protect us from poisoning. Listen as the author of Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures talks with EconTalk Russ Roberts about tradition, religion, tribalism, resilience, and emergent order.