Maybe this isn’t Robin Hanson’s greatest hits, but it’s a start. Listen when you have an hour and a half. I’ll refund your money if you’re not satisfied.
Maybe this isn’t Robin Hanson’s greatest hits, but it’s a start. Listen when you have an hour and a half. I’ll refund your money if you’re not satisfied.
Oct 13 2010
I'm always impressed when someone admits an error, and especially impressed when he admits an error brought to his attention by an undergrad in an introductory economics course. I just happened to read Douglass North's graceful tribute to the late Paul Heyne in The Economic Way of Thinking by Heyne, Boettke, and Prych...
Oct 12 2010
Deirdre McCloskey, Gregory Clark, and Matt Ridley debate the cause(s) of the industrial revolution. McCloskey writes, contrary to the usual declarations of the economists since Adam Smith or Karl Marx, the Biggest Economic Story was not caused by trade or investment or exploitation. It was caused by ideas. The idea o...
Oct 12 2010
Maybe this isn't Robin Hanson's greatest hits, but it's a start. Listen when you have an hour and a half. I'll refund your money if you're not satisfied.
READER COMMENTS
fructose
Oct 13 2010 at 8:43am
Where was he speaking? Why was everybody there retired?
It’s a fantastic talk, his ideas presented here are sort of like a grand unified theory of history, but it actually seem plausible to me.
Niklas Blanchard
Oct 13 2010 at 7:00pm
One thing that I find missing in these syntheses of Robin’s ideas is the evolution of money. He hints at the fact that once growth rates reach a certain level, it is infeasible to have an antiquated payments system run by a monopolist central bank as a clearing house…but the more interesting question is what happens when, in RH-time, everything slows down and eventually stops at some sort of equilibrium?
Of course the mechanics of the money we use wouldn’t be very well suited for that type of world at all.
Kalim Kassam
Oct 15 2010 at 6:03pm
@fructose
Robin explains over at his blog:
I really would like a greatest hits. It’s not easy to navigate his output, something like Moldbuggery perhaps.
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