Tyler Cowen: belief

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…I think if you look at who underperformed, you clearly see a bit of a, you might call it a liberal arts bias. When we have guests that are less known, (A), and (B), that they’re talking about music or fiction, that’s when you tend to see a dip. Then I would say, weirdly, the episode performed decently, but John McWhorter — as I was looking through the stats, I was surprised. I would say he underperformed. I would say — to the extent that that tells you something about how people rated it — then I would say John McWhorter, underrated. Here’s what I suspect went on there. He is so available in the podcast forum that you don’t need to come to us. Until very recently, Adam Tooze was quite underexposed in the podcast forum, and that’s being remedied for the better. We were the go-to Adam Tooze place. All right, let’s jump into a round of Name That Production Function. We’ll do two rounds of this. As a reminder to you, I’ve gone through and picked some of my favorite answers from responses to your inquiries about a guest’s production function. I picked some of my favorites. I’m going to read you a quote and you guess who it is. All right?…

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