Freakonomics: Are We Living Through the Most Revolutionary Period in History?

[sekker]

Dr Fareed Zakaria and his new book.

I think it's a great listen - nuanced, complex, no clear answers while also a nice summary of the big winds we are facing.


https://freakonomics.com/podcast/are-we-...n-history/

[Ombligo]

We are in a populist period, it isn't that much different than the same sentiments of the Jackson presidency in the 1830's, the the People's Party in the 1890s, or Huey Long in the mid-1930s. History is a cycle, it always repeats.

[Ted King]

Ombligo wrote:
We are in a populist period, it isn't that much different than the same sentiments of the Jackson presidency in the 1830's, the the People's Party in the 1890s, or Huey Long in the mid-1930s. History is a cycle, it always repeats.

I think you are right about this being a populist period (I think Bernie Sanders is a populist). I wonder what it is about this time that leads it to be so. I don't think it's a pattern of timing, I think there has to be the right kind of cultural/social/economic conditions. What are those conditions that are shared across those times and this one?

[sekker]

Ted King wrote:
[quote=Ombligo]
We are in a populist period, it isn't that much different than the same sentiments of the Jackson presidency in the 1830's, the the People's Party in the 1890s, or Huey Long in the mid-1930s. History is a cycle, it always repeats.

I think you are right about this being a populist period (I think Bernie Sanders is a populist). I wonder what it is about this time that leads it to be so. I don't think it's a pattern of timing, I think there has to be the right kind of cultural/social/economic conditions. What are those conditions that are shared across those times and this one?
Listen to the episode, I bet you will hear all sorts of good data with ideas explaining this today!