Tyler Cowen: evaluation

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…Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Conversations with Tyler. Today, I am chatting live with Greg Clark, the economic historian. I think it’s fair to say that Greg is the most interesting and most influential economic historian of the last 20 years. His book from 2007, A Farewell to Alms, presented a new theory of economic growth, human progress, and the Industrial Revolution. I ended up as one of the blurbers, and I called it, as I wrote in The New York Times, “the next blockbuster in economics. ” His book after that, The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility, among other things, argues that rates of social mobility have been much less, much more static, much harder to change than many people believe. Greg spent much of his career at UC Davis. He is now a professor at the University of Southern Denmark, and he hails from Scotland. Greg, welcome. Thank you very much. Great to be here.…

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