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8 Jan 2025 Conversations with Tyler Scott Sumner on Monetary Rules, Blooming Late, and the Death of Cinema
“Now, for your books on the Great Depression, you once said that you read the New York Times for many years in a row, for I think the 1920s and the 1930s.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 8 Jan 2025
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…Oh, thank you. It’s good to be here. Now, for your books on the Great Depression, you once said that you read the New York Times for many years in a row, for I think the 1920s and the 1930s. Monetary theory aside, what was the biggest surprise that you learned about that era? Oh, it’s hard to say. I think the thing that felt interesting about it was to see how people saw things as the events played out in real time. Before I read the New York Times, it was always looking back on history, knowing what we know now about how things played out. And seeing how people interpreted events like the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany in real time, I found enlightening. It’s hard to put into words exactly why it’s enlightening, but it gives you a different perspective, I think, even on current events.…
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