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John Nye on Revisionist Economic History and Having Too Many Hobbies

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The John Nye Production Function

As a boy, one of the most influential books to be was the book memoirs of a sword swallower by Dan Manix. And it really spurred my interest in fantasy and horror and science fiction were all heavily driven by that book. I would say in recent years, the book I've been pondering a lot is Hobbes-Lav. A major global conflict at that level in many, many nearly about the three quarters of a century now. That's quite unusual. It's also unusual that the number one leading military power has done so little contrary again to a lot of people say about it to expand its power militarily.

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