me shows a misunderstanding of the kind of society we have to have where everyone s respected. and working people who make the society come together, who make it all function, deserve our respect. and this is a problem in the democratic party too, to the previous conversation you guys had earlier, i think democratic party s got to refocus on working people of all backgrounds and what transcends the question of identity politics is economics. people of all backgrounds who need a better economic reality, who need opportunity. we should be speaking to that. and we should go to them. and we should go to places where people are doubting us and have the conversation. because when you re talking to someone, you value them. if you go to someone, it means you value them and respect them. and so that to me is part of overcoming this whole concept of the elites because the elites are not comfortable with the notion of a society that actually serves working people. and that s a society i think we
sense? it seems like the with president xi. it also seems over the last few weeks concerns, about whether the president would be a steady ally in this confrontation with north korea. and what we are already seeing the playbook not going as was foreshadowed, certainly to me by a couple administration officials. they say the first two legs will be all about national security, north korea, physical security. china is the fulcrum where you discuss both, and the back end of the trip in vietnam and the philippines is economics. he hayes taken trade and shoved it in there. he s going to go to south korea, and that thing is about to blow up, teetering on the edge. i don t know how this is gob to play out. it s liking pretty precarious to me. we have to leave is it there, unfortunately. we are reach roa eaching the top of the hours.
students causes, and we found that students who took economics classes were more likely to free ride in that situation than students who hadn t taken economics classes. and so in terms of the future of how this stuff gets taught do your students think you re hysterical? are you a riot in the classroom? i do my best, but i m funny for an hour but not funny for a semester. look, an hour, a little comic relief in economics is probably better than a lot of folks can hope for. you know, one beef that i ve always had with the economics profession, and i was an undergrad major, you know, 100 years ago so dangerous enough to know a little economics, but the idea is economics is a science is something that many economists that i respect talk about, when they talk about the profession. my view is always that there s so much that fits more in the way it used to be called political economy because you just can t think about economics as a hard science in the same way. where are you on that