Viviana Zelizer on Money and Intimacy

EconTalk Archives, 2007

English - February 26, 2007 12:00 - 54 minutes - 12.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 30 ratings
Courses Education Science Social Sciences Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed

Previous Episode: Richard Epstein on Property Rights and Drug Patents

Next Episode: Easterbrook on the American Standard of Living

Viviana Zelizer, Princeton University sociologist, talks about the ideas in her new book, The Purchase of Intimacy. Does money ruin intimacy? Does intimacy ruin our commercial transactions? Zelizer and host Russ Roberts have a lively conversation on the sometimes contentious border between economics and sociology.