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Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: prediction
19 Jun 2019 Conversations with Tyler Hal Varian on Taking the Academic Approach to Business
“I think I would pick pre-conquest Mexico because we have so few written records.”
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- Speaker
- Tyler Cowen
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- Claim type
- prediction
- Recorded
- 19 Jun 2019
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…Yeah, the collapse of Rome. And, again, this idea of what would you do? How would you acquire resources? How could you put together a system that could prevent that collapse? It’s a clever story. I’ve thought about it many times, actually. I think I would pick pre-conquest Mexico because we have so few written records. We know a fair amount about Rome, obviously. Yeah.…
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