Arnold Kling: How Economics Starts with Specialization

Arnold Kling is an economist, former writer at EconLog and writer of the In My Tribe substack, and the author of many books, including Specialization and Trade: A Reintroduction to Economics, and

The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides. We discuss polarization, Never-Trumpers, intellectual honesty, specialization, vaccines, scientific innovation, tribalism, empathy, “fantasy intellectual teams”, and the administrative state.

0:00 Polarization

20:30 Never-Trump

41:00 Intellectual Honesty

1:03:00 Specialization

1:21:00 Vaccines and Innovation

1:39:20 Does specialization cause tribalism

2:24:00 Order, Chaos, and the Administrative State

In My Tribe, by Arnold Kling:

Arnold on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/KlingBlog

Econlog:

https://www.econlib.org/author/akling/

Specialization and Trade:

https://www.amazon.ca/Specialization-Trade-Re-introduction-Arnold-Kling-ebook/dp/B01GW3SOOM

The Three Languages of Politics:

https://www.amazon.ca/Three-Languages-Politics-Talking-Political/dp/1944424466

My conversation with Zvi Mowshowitz:

Zvi Mowshowitz - How the Worst People in Society Bungled a Pandemic

My conversation with Richard Hanania:

Richard Hanania: Why Activists Control the World, Groomerism as Right-Wing Wokeness, and the Libertarian Machine

Designing a Better Regulatory State by Arnold Kling:

https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/designing-a-better-regulatory-state

Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America:

https://www.amazon.ca/Albions-Seed-British-Folkways-America/dp/0195069056

Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World

https://www.amazon.ca/Special-Providence-American-Foreign-Changed/dp/0415935369

Warriors and Worriers:

https://www.amazon.ca/Warriors-Worriers-Survival-Joyce-Benenson-ebook/dp/B00HO6WT3O