Lets pick up where we left off on wednesday. The main argument i was trying to make then focused on James Madisons role as the agenda maker for the philadelphia convention, and the particular argument i wanted to make is as madison prepares himself, i think the key item he worked on in his agenda is the idea that a system of federalism based upon the voluntary compliance of the states with the recommendations, the resolutions, the requisitions that came from the Continental Congress, was never going to work. When he reasons about this, he does so in a very interesting way. He combines a set of empirical observations about what took had taken place back in the 70s and lessons americans like him had learned since 1776. How washington functions. He takes a step back, and then what he does is to think abstractly, and what we can see a, at least implicitly, theoretic framework where he comes up with the idea that because states have different interests and different interests within each st
People are rated as above average of whom a small fraction are rated as gorgeous and about a 6 the rate is below average so were talking about the top 3rd in the bottom 6 which is half of the entire population so its not a rare thing but it is scarce in the sense that people value it and are willing to pay for it but i think youre also make a point in your book that for the large part and there are some differences internationally some countries are more generally to assessing looks then others but you make a point that for the most part people are rated as either attractive or around or above average and yet you also say to your book that many people perceive that discrimination based on looks is pretty widespread at least more widespread than discrimination based on race on National Origin or on the this city do you. You think thats just self perception people thinking that theyre being discriminated or is that the real thing. Tremendous amount of perception that one is discriminated
Professor of economics at the university of texas and author of beauty pace why attractive people are more successful professor its so good to have you on the show thank you very much for your time thank you for having me now its been almost a decade since you published these groundbreaking book and theres been quite a lot of changes in this past decade beauty pageants on not as popular as they used to be. Some voters in some western countries are no longer discriminating against ugly man running for president of Prime Minister so i wonder if people as of sassed about the looks as they used to be when they you were writing your book thats really hard to say theres been very little studies where they have through the exactly the same thing lets say in the eightys and right now one study for australia did exactly the same experiment in the mid eightys and 2009 and they found remarkably similar relation. Between beauty and outcomes such as earnings in these 2 periods so while we think thi
Beauty in pretty similar ways and thats leaps into all facets of a persons life from the way kid is treated in school to hes or her success in the labor or marriage markets is pretty clear that beauty is an advantage but is it really an unfair or superficial one well to discuss that im now joined by danielle hamermesh emeritus professor of economics at the university of texas and author of beauty pace why attractive people are more successful professor and so good to have you on the show thank you very much for your time thank you for having me now its been almost a decade since you published these groundbreaking book and theres been quite a lot of changes in this past decade beauty pageants are not as popular as they used to be. Some voters in some western countries are no longer discriminating against ugly man running for president of prime. Mr so i wonder if people as of sassed about the looks as they used to be when they you were writing your book thats very hard to say been very l
Watch American History tv this weekend on cspan3. Up next on American History tv on cspan3, an interview laura bush, what was your initial reaction the first time your husband said i think im going to run for president . Well, i cant really remember initially what my act reaction was. I think it was a bit slower than all of a sudden saying im going to run for president. He was governor and had been governor for one term and reelected and i slowly think we both started talking about it. He talked about it and of course other people were talking to him about it. I knew what it was like. I knew already what it would be like to run for president. I knew what it would be like to live in the white house. George and i had an advantage that only one other family has had so far, the John Quincy Adams family. Because wed seen somebody we loved in that office, and we visited him very often. We moved to washington in fact in 1987, rather, to work on president bushs campaign. And so i saw them then