Alex Tabarrok: evaluation

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…I only cover a small fraction of what I read. That’s the funny thing. [laughter] It’s true, Tyler skims, but the way I would put it is this: that he very quickly is able to find something in a book which he doesn’t know, and then he reads that section. What this means is that the more Tyler reads, the faster he can read because he just skips the stuff he already knows [laughs]. He just has a unique ability, and there’s nobody else, I think, in the world who can produce as much original, interesting new content as Tyler. I’m very grateful for that since I feel I don’t have to feed the blog quite as much. Speaking of reading, let’s move to a segment I’m calling Mysteries of MR. A couple of times, I think from ’06 to ’08, you hosted book clubs. There were maybe two or three. There was a Keynes book club on The General Theory, and it just stopped halfway through. Why did it stop?…

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