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4: Timur Kuran - The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception

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Aug 20, 2019
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
Preference Falsification
01:50 • 4min
3
The New Theory of Preferences Could Have Powerful Implications
05:48 • 3min
4
The Economy of Silence or the Economy of Deception?
09:15 • 2min
5
You Have to Take a Position
11:28 • 2min
6
What Is It About Preference Falsification?
13:15 • 5min
7
The Power of the Powerless
17:52 • 2min
8
The Cascade Effect Is Like Newton's Law
20:01 • 2min
9
I'm Just Going to Make This Speech, I Can't Live With Myself
22:22 • 4min
10
What Happened in Chekoslovakia?
26:04 • 3min
11
The Theory of Preference Falsification
29:02 • 3min
12
The Analysis of Message Violence
31:58 • 3min
13
Is There a Difference Between Men and Women?
34:29 • 2min
14
Reputational Violence Can Affect Your Job Prospects
36:26 • 4min
15
What's Happening in the United States Right Now?
40:15 • 3min
16
The Force That Makes the Middle So Difficult to Hold
43:25 • 5min
17
I'll Drop These People in a Heartbeat if You Give Me Some Nuanced Room in Which to Manoeuvre
48:03 • 5min
18
The Big Five Personality Inventory
52:48 • 4min
19
I Don't Think It's the Middle
56:53 • 1min
20
The Weirdness of Economic Theory
58:21 • 6min
21
Economists, You Know, Have Two Voices
01:04:24 • 5min
22
The Biggest Danger to Political Economy
01:08:57 • 4min
23
The Economics of Economists
01:12:45 • 4min
24
Do We Start Doing the Economics of Economists?
01:16:45 • 3min
25
Why Can't We Smuggle a Legitimate Economic Cryptonite
01:20:11 • 2min
26
The Theory Is a Waste of Time
01:22:37 • 4min
27
Is There a Cascade Effect in Preference Falsification?
01:26:23 • 5min
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Buchanan's Experiment Didn't Result in the Conquering of Major Departments
01:31:46 • 2min
29
Youg Up in One of My Favorite Places on Earth
01:34:03 • 1min
30
Turkey's History - A History of the Ottoman Empire
01:35:31 • 5min
31
Isis and the Preference Falsification
01:40:57 • 3min
32
Are You Really Religious?
01:44:15 • 2min
33
Is the Army the Protector of the System?
01:46:40 • 5min
34
The Mildly Islamist O Party
01:52:04 • 2min
35
I Don't Know What I'm Trying to Say About Turkey
01:53:40 • 3min
36
What I Didn't Understand Was That There Was Resistance
01:56:13 • 3min
37
The Head Scarves Are Coming Out of the Middle of the Country
01:58:58 • 5min
38
Having a Military to Guarantee a Democracy, a Secular Democracy
02:03:43 • 3min
39
The Parallel Between Trump and AOC
02:07:01 • 2min
40
Are We Talking About Defending Promising Solutions?
02:09:15 • 2min
41
Immigration Expansionism Is a Weapon for Transfer of Wealth Among Americans
02:11:33 • 4min
42
Are We Going to Get a Hundred % of What You're Looking For?
02:15:43 • 2min
43
Do You Know Any Brown People?
02:18:02 • 3min
44
The University, I'm Professor Duke.
02:21:29 • 3min
45
The Struggle in Universities Over Affirmative Action
02:24:42 • 3min
46
Is There a Wild Balance in the Field of Mathematics?
02:27:58 • 5min
47
The Check Sum Theory of Politics
02:32:43 • 5min
48
Then He Started Insulting and Demeaning and Humiliating Groups in the Republican Party
02:37:21 • 4min
49
Trump Detractors See Him as Out of Control
02:41:10 • 4min