![The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt](https://assets.byub.org/images/ba4b3a7a-3564-4fd1-ad30-378a9d2c5dc4/720x405.jpg)
- Apr 15, 2021 6:00 pm
- 22:30 mins
The story of colonial-era French-controlled Hanoi being overrun by rats illustrates how prejudiced, arrogant, and perverse incentives lead to ineffective solutions. Guest: Michael G. Vann, Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento; author of "The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam"; host, “New Books in History” podcast