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Published · transcript-backedTim Harford: belief
12 Feb 2020 Conversations with Tyler Tim Harford on Persuasion and Popular Economics
“Let’s focus on what counts. It is astonishing that this organization, this institution that is now about 800, 900 years old, is still going, is still one of the — rightly, I think — one of the most admired universities in the world.”
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- 12 Feb 2020
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…Oxford — that’s fine. Let’s focus on what counts. It is astonishing that this organization, this institution that is now about 800, 900 years old, is still going, is still one of the — rightly, I think — one of the most admired universities in the world. It is astonishing that you can keep adapting and adjusting. And while there are enormous inefficiencies and flaws in the way it’s governed, it’s still going strong. As somebody who lives on the fringes of Oxford University — I go to occasional dinners, and I hang around lectures, and I go to the libraries, but I’m not an academic — it remains a tremendously inspiring place, and I envy the undergraduates their experience of going to this place. The legacy of the British Empire — overrated or underrated?…
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