Tyler Cowen: preference

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…Do you think there’s an analogy there to developing taste appreciation for other fields? What would be the equivalent of that in even something like economics? Is that just a seminar? You could have a group of three to five people read the same piece and talk about it. We do that at George Mason pretty often, like with Alex Tabarrok, Robin Hanson, Brian Kaplan, Garett Jones. I recommend that. Academics don’t do it enough. There’s somehow no space for it. You learn more that way than for most seminars. You can even have a guest or visitor come if you want, but if you do music appreciation with Rick, you learn a great deal about talent. He’s one of the greatest talent judges of all time, and you learn a lot about appreciation. I think one of the things he and I have in common is, we’re both quite keen to get other people more excited about appreciation. Eric Silver asks, “Will there be more clustered shows as with the three Tatu City episodes?” I’ll broaden that to say, do you think you’ll experiment more with format or guest ideas? We also have the Jerusalem Demsas book club —…

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