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in your view? >> guest: because i think it captures so many aspects of the case even when it was not written about. the -- forlorn and bewildered expression of the boys themselves, as they were called, their poverty, the mill tarrization of the -- militarization of the trial that surrounded them, the total ab jex of the scene itself. >> host: if they were arrested in paint rock, how did this become known as the scottsboro's boys case? >> guest: because scottsboro was the town in which the first trials were held. the boys were arrested on march 31st, 1931. within two weeks, all of the...

>> by the records and by my impression, understanding of her was a more gentle and vulnerable person who joined into victoria price's story, but it was much more ambivalent about it. it was, in fact, ruby bates' we can't think of the charges act of 1933 decatur trial which led to judge horton basically saying that we mustn't bring this circus to an end. >> where the prostitutes? >> they were prostitutes is a loaded term, particularly in the context of the socioeconomic circumstances that they live in and the socioeconomic circumstances that they inhabited. they were known in their co...

>> host: thank you for joining me to talk about your book that have so eighth days and-- fascinates me over the last couple of hundred of years. why did you decide to write the book now? >> i didn't decide now but about 10 years ago. now is a great time because when things are going really well people outside the economics profession 10 not to be interested in economics. and people like that used to be like somebody who read novels and not know what was happening in the world. this is a good moment. and because of the financial crisis and the recession in the united states. it is als...