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01 / evaluation
“I don’t think it can be not trusting authority because they certainly believe in their own authority.”
02 / evaluation
“I think, in general, the problem with guilds is that they seek the benefits of their existing members, and restricting entry always enables you to raise prices.”
03 / evaluation
“Maybe the first thing I would say is, don’t believe what your priest says, [laughs] because one of the things I do in the book is I try to assess the effect of different social institutions.”
04 / evaluation
“She was an early 18th-century influencer, and it became the fashionable thing for aristocratic ladies and then upwardly mobile people to do. It happened that it was a really good way of spreading it because we even know nowadays that mothers, women are often the decision-makers as far as vaccination and health decisions in the family are concerned.”
05 / evaluation
“There was a perception, at any rate, that workers felt that they were able to demand higher wages, and in particular, females were demanding higher wages. This was seen as really outrageous because women were supposed to be obedient, disciplined workers, and here they were saying, “I’m going to leave the village unless you increase my wages.”
06 / evaluation
“When that was the case, you actually sometimes needed higher levels of government to bang a few local heads together because the problem with villages and small towns is that they only care about what’s going on inside the community.”
07 / evaluation
“I think there were really big differences compared to nowadays, but on the whole, it looks like voluntary market withdrawal was really higher in past epidemics than it was, for instance, during influenza in the early 20th century or COVID in the early 21st.”