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Tyler Cowen: Living in an Internet Age S1 E1

Meditations with Zohar

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Is the Decline in Trust a Cultural Phenomenon?

How do you process the issue of low trust, which seems to be a cultural phenomenon? Well, i think i now expect a higher variance of quality in policy responses. It's just easier to be surprised if you 're expecting events to go as they did in the 19 eighties and nineties. You make an argument in stubborn attachments that we should make growth a top priority. Would you accept the corollary of more bad weirdness as well - even if it meant less trust or other kind of fraying of the social order caused by the miss match between the weird and the normal? If more weirds means more growth, that's definitely when i want to opt for more weird

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