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Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: evaluation
28 Dec 2022 Conversations with Tyler Conversations with Tyler 2022 Retrospective
“Look, the number of sources is limited. So there’s new archeology, but until we read those burnt codexes and the like, just rehashing with another interpretation — it’s diminishing returns.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- evaluation
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- 28 Dec 2022
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Reach out to Tyler for your blurb on the next Rome book. “So many Rome books.” [laughter] Look, the number of sources is limited. So there’s new archeology, but until we read those burnt codexes and the like, just rehashing with another interpretation — it’s diminishing returns. Maybe better to read the Romans. I don’t know. It’s hard at the margin to improve your understanding of Rome, I find. Odd Arne Westad, Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750.…
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