Human Centered

America As a Developing Country?

Episode Summary

California Supreme Court Justice & CASBS board chair Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Stanford political scientist & former CASBS fellow Barry Weingast, and CASBS director Margaret Levi use a recent article they coauthored as a jumping off point for a discussion on what we can learn from the U.S. in its political-economic development in the first half of the 20th century that applies to the U.S. and its state capacity today and in the future.

Episode Notes

Video of this conversation

Their paper in the Harvard Journal on Legislation "Twentieth-Century America as a Developing Country: Conflict, Institutions, and The Evolution of Public Law"

Web page for CASBS's webcast series, Social Science for a World in Crisis

Notable events mentioned in this episode:

The West Virginia Coal Wars

The National Labor Relations Act

The Taft-Hartley Act

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer