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Tyler Cowen: belief

16 Oct 2018 Conversations with Tyler Rob Wiblin interviews Tyler on *Stubborn Attachments*

“Absolutely. I think of culture as one of the keys behind economic growth in fact.”

— Tyler Cowen

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Tyler Cowen
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belief
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16 Oct 2018
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Conversations with Tyler

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…And that’s probably not only economic or financial issues, but also cultural. Absolutely. I think of culture as one of the keys behind economic growth in fact. Some listeners might be listening to this and thinking, “Well, yeah, it might be the case that if we grow GDP today, this will also increase GDP in a thousand years time. But I don’t really care about a thousand years in the future.” What would you say to try to convince them that a thousand years in the future does have important moral significance?…

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