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9 Sept 2020 Conversations with Tyler Matt Yglesias on Why the Population is Too Damn Low
“I think most people do not pay attention to what the end of Anarchy, State, and Utopia actually says, or to some of his other books.”
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- Matt Yglesias
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- 9 Sept 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Why? I think most people do not pay attention to what the end of Anarchy, State, and Utopia actually says, or to some of his other books. But he’s a really deep thinker. Particularly because so few academics are right of center, it is really to people’s benefit. This is probably not to the specific benefit of the Conversations with Tyler audience. But people should really try to engage these major works like his in a serious way, not with like, “I’m going to get my highlighter pen and debunk this guy.” It was one of the great privileges of my life to be in a small seminar with him and really learn from him. I have obviously not become a Nozick-style deontological libertarian — Nor did he.…
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