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Jeffrey Sachs on Charter Cities and How to Reform Graduate Economics Education (Live at Mason)

Conversations with Tyler

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Are You Persuaded by What They Say or Not?

A lot of anthropologists criticize what economists do at a pretty broad level. Are you persuaded by what they say or not? I think that anthropology in the form of getting a very deep texture, a thick description of a society is a very important kind of approach. Second, we need an anthropology of economics in the original literal sense of the word which is a theory of man much better than we have. So we need a new anthropology in our field. The economy of Mexico. Overrated or underrated? It's probably accurately rated,. but 100 million people living in a kind of middle income stasis.

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