#39 – Eric Alston on the US constitution

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This is my conversation with Eric Alston, faculty director at the Leeds School of Business at CU Boulder and research associate with the Comparative Constitutions Project.

Timestamps:

• (00:00) - intro
• (01:29) - choice in institutions matters
• (08:53) - secondary rules as rules for making rules
• (17:41) - constitutional moments
• (20:41) - how the US constitution has endured
• (28:39) - the characteristics of the US constitution
• (34:18) - sponsor: Splits
• (35:01) - the economic balance between federal/state govts
• (47:24) - presidential vs parliamentary systems
• (01:01:13) - blockchains as experimental ground for governance
• (01:13:50) - outro

Links:
Eric Alston - https://x.com/incompleterules
Eric Alston on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-alston

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