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21 Nov 2018 Conversations with Tyler John Nye on Revisionist Economic History and Having Too Many Hobbies
“The thing I’m really frustrated by is that it doesn’t matter whether people are writing from a socialist or a libertarian perspective.”
— John Nye
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- 21 Nov 2018
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…But that could in fact solve the problem, or no? But that’s almost like saying, let’s assume a can opener. It’s exactly the problem. The thing I’m really frustrated by is that it doesn’t matter whether people are writing from a socialist or a libertarian perspective. Too much of the discussion of political economy is normative. It’s about what should the ideal state be? I’m much more concerned with the questions of what good states are possible? And once good states are created that are possible, what good states are sustainable? And that, in my view, is a still understudied and very poorly understood issue. Now, as you know, we have many talented colleagues, but probably you would count as the best educated amongst the group — educated in the broad sense of the term — we all have PhDs. To what would you attribute that?…
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