Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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01 / belief
“If I think of the Renaissance as, overall, more capitalistic than the Middle Ages, then there’s a kind of paradox that arises in my mind.”
02 / belief
“Broadly speaking, I agree. I think there’s a distinction. The difficulty is, I’m unpackaging .”
03 / belief
“I think the Americans and British don’t do as good a job of historical movies compared to French, Japanese, or many other cultures.”
04 / belief
“I know Albania was part of the Ottoman Empire at one point, and some of these regions. This isn’t closer to the Ottoman Empire in my mind, but Poland has a much different equilibrium with Jews that emerges, and I have a story for that.”
05 / belief
“A final thing is the Chinese minority Manchu state. I think that really shapes their vulnerability.”
06 / belief
“I found it wasn’t a good substitute for Diamond. Diamond takes an approach which I think is appealing.”
07 / belief
“You mentioned the Black Death. Let’s go back to 1347, which, I think, is when it all starts.”
08 / belief
“I think what’s very interesting about the volcanic eruptions is that we are discovering more and more that they may have played a large role in political change that occurred.”
09 / belief
“We’re contrasting the experience of what we think . . . Europe, or the West, even today, doesn’t conform to our liberal ideals.”
10 / belief
“Again, I’m going way over one sentence. I think that’s the bottom line, what we have.”
11 / belief
“For example, there are many EU nationals currently residing in Britain, and I think Theresa May was pretty bad in not immediately granting them, basically, permanent leave to stay.”
12 / belief
“However, I think there is a general sense that’s been absorbed into the culture that this is no longer a thing that is acceptable.”
13 / uncertainty
“If we look at economic miracles or effervescences, I don’t know how many of them arise in the capital region, in the political center, and how many arise in peripheral regions.”
14 / belief
“Perhaps overrated. I think he has a lot of really good ideas, and he had them very early on.”
15 / evaluation
“While people have been looking at it, you see that the timing’s not perfect, but it did pile on additional agricultural pressure on these nobles at a time when they were all discontented with the king’s power. They might have been individually upset before, but now they’re all becoming upset at the same time because you have crops failing, the king is still asking for revenues, and they all are feeling the pressure at the same time.”
16 / evaluation
“Politically, though, I think there’s still a great value to having an organization in Europe which is formally meeting [laughs] from time to time and discussing these sorts of issues.”
17 / prediction
“English ambassadors are being killed. But once they overthrow the shogunate and restore the emperor, they’re able — partly I think because it’s a cohesive territory — to develop this modern state which can respond to the West.”
18 / prediction
“Because I think eventually, the 13th century, the Commercial Revolution in the 12th century, is a high point of expansion, of new cities being founded in northern Europe, of Italian merchants going to the Middle East.”
19 / evaluation
“Because it seems to me that very weak states, like, say, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, are too easily captured by a few nobles or vested interests.”
20 / evaluation
“The way that my coauthors on this paper, who are Theresa Finley and Raphael Franck — the way we think about this process is that you have a set of feudal institutions and property that exists up to about 1790 or something like this — the French Revolution, early phases.”
21 / observation
“We know — because of what we’ve been looking at — that the Hanseatic cities, which are the trading network that exists on the Baltic in the north of Europe — those cities recovered much more quickly than cities in the south, cities tied to the old Roman road network that centered on the Mediterranean, for example.”
22 / evaluation
“I think my quick answer would be that rules in Britain are very different than rules outside Britain.”
23 / evaluation
“I think there’s something in there that has to do with size, that it can work in a place the size of Switzerland.”
24 / evaluation
“I had a theory about this once, and I didn’t pursue it. But my theory — when I was in graduate school — was that they were getting a large amount of specie flow because they had mercenaries out there, and they were being paid in gold.”