Of all the wonderful music in Africa, you must have heard a lot of it. What's your favorite? Drums from which bar? Of course, everywhere. And basically it's a truism and obvious, but how much of American music is African music? So we live on culture that came from Africa through the Caribbean to jazz to so much.
Tyler Cowen and Jeffrey Sachs discuss the resource curse, why Russia failed and Poland succeeded, charter cities, Sach's China optimism, JFK, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, whether Africa will be able to overcome the middle income trap, Paul Krugman, Sach's favorite novel, premature deindustrialization, and how to reform graduate economics education.
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