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“Free Market,” [deals with] the idea of the free market from Cicero to Friedman and what kind of a free market is it then. And it’s a truly excellent, excellent, wonderful book that I wished I had had on my side while I was writing my own as well.

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Adam Smith’s America, [is a book that deals with] the reception of Adam Smith in America and how... [he] came to be weaponized as the person who believes the market is a god in America in the 1800s and 1900s, that I think is very, very much worth reading.

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@paulkrugman …to 15% per century. As I see it, 1/3 of this is simply Mediæval (but now Gunpowder-Empire) business as usual, 1/3 of this is the Columbian Exchange and such, and 1/3 of this is a historically unique tinkering-inventing-recombining culture (Patrick Wyman’s book “The Verge”… 7/

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Cf.: <https://t.co/dFEdqzJYdF> As I wrote back then: I remember back in the… spring of 1981, I think it was. I asked my professor, William Thomson, visiting from Rochester, roughly this: "The utilitarian social welfare function is Ωu = U(1) + U(2) + U(3)… 212-slouching/

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… is a moderately clever programmer to program a dumb machine to hack the brains of the humans that interact with it at scale, to their detriment. That is the problem that the very sharp Adrian Hon is addressing in his brand-new "You’ve Been Played: How Corporations… 3/

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&: ...References: Ran Abramitzky & Leah Boustan: Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success <https://t.co/KvatLwEhV4> Leah Boustan: Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets <https://t.co/0g4rdkpH8u>… 6/

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@KeriLeighMerrit @BasicBooks How can I relax when I am being outsold by Alex Jones’s The Great Reset?

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...discourse about finance and economics that never managed to absorb Paul Krugman's very important 1998 point call if you find yourself at the zero lower bound on interest rates, that means that your inflation target is too low. <https://t.co/8fr49eZJch>

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...Sean Illing & Lyndsey Stonebridge: Hannah Arendt: The Philosopher Who Warned Us About Loneliness & Totalitarianism<https://t.co/stfsCM5vVy> Highly, highly recommended. 8/END

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...“Make Rome Great for the First Time”—and the “liberty of the moderns”—the liberty to march to the beat of a different drummer—there have been many, usually among the rich and comfortable, who exalt what Isaiah Berlin called the negative liberty of being... 650-slouching/

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