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Interview: Brad DeLong, author of Slouching Towards Utopia

Ordinary Astronauts

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Did the Culture of the Early Corporations Become a Culture?

A shift to a world in which women are expected to come to the marriage with a dowry, which means that you have to have spent five years as a milkmaid or shepherdess beforehand. And yet having coins so that you actually have a chance of being able to say, let's make a win-win deal now rather than starting to fight. The kind of thick enough set of educated people that you can actually make a living by figuring out how to print books and then print the books themselves. Yeah. It was a huge moment for science because it was like, wow, there's like stuff we don't know. That's a really important way to systematically try and figure it out

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