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	Podcast:		EconTalk Archives, 2007
	Episode:		Weingast on Violence, Power and a Theory of Nearly Everything
	Category:		Education
	Duration:		01:05:22
	Publish Date:		2007-08-13 06:30:00
	Description:		Barry Weingast, Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and the Ward C. Krebs Family Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University, talks about the ideas in his forthcoming book with Doug North and John Wallis, A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History. Weingast talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how violence shapes political institutions, the role of competition in politics and economics, and why most development advice from successful nations fails to lift poor nations out of poverty.
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