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01 / evaluation
“The thing I’m really frustrated by is that it doesn’t matter whether people are writing from a socialist or a libertarian perspective.”
02 / evaluation
“Because I think we’ve lived through such a period of relative peace and order that we are taking for granted how unprecedented this is.”
03 / evaluation
“There’s a lot of discussion about this, but certainly I’d say the regional nature of the agriculture contributed to a lot of what we think of as good food, but it’s not just that.”
04 / evaluation
“One of the things that shocked me was that, from about the 1850s, or certainly the 1860s, to the end of the 19th century, France had, in fact, much earlier, going back to the ’30s, France seemed to have lower average tariffs than the British did, for I would say three-quarters of the 19th century.”
05 / evaluation
“I would say the Higher School of Economics in Moscow is the most successful university institution in Russia so far at doing that.”
06 / evaluation
“The good example is Francois I of France, who often had, because of the problems that people like Doug North have talked about, a credible commitment, could not borrow money except with very high interest rates.”
07 / evaluation
“Petersburg. And their inability to permit that or encourage it — or in fact, in my view, their tendency to discourage it because, for various complicated reasons — is part of what holds Russia back.”
08 / evaluation
“Finally, the other thing that occurred is that people forget that initially, the wine tariffs, which go back to the late 1600s and early 1700s, were primarily protectionist. They were an attack on France, but because of the high tariffs, the British were able to impose very high taxes on domestic alcohol, in particular things like beer, but also gin, whiskey, et cetera.”