Tyler Cowen: belief

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…What are our successes, say in the past year, at Mercatus that you think you just know it without having to measure it? We’ve changed minds, changed behaviors or attitudes? Well, it depends what you mean by the phrase “at Mercatus.” Hester Peirce used to work here. She studied crypto for us. She has since become a commissioner at the SEC. Due to her heroic efforts, crypto is still alive and well. It’s a Hester triumph, not a Mercatus (in the narrow sense) triumph. That’s exactly the kind of thing we should be trying to do. Someone said on Twitter recently that — it was Joe Lonsdale — “There’s no limit to what you can achieve if you’re willing not to get much credit for it.” I think that should be our attitude. To some extent, it is our attitude. What would Mercatus be without its people, to paraphrase —…

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