The Doyen Of Economics Podcasting On Death, Lockdown, And The Art Of Socratic Dialogue - Russ Roberts
The Joe Walker Podcast
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The Importance of Pattern-Seeking Stories
We're pattern-seeking storytelling animals. And essentially, all we're doing is spinning narratives to each other that often fit out preconceived world-viewer ideology. Reminds me of Edlemus' aphorism, which I think he writes in the beginning of his Macroeconomic Stores and Patterns. But as you say, getting to the actual truth of what is going on here is a supremely difficult, sometimes intractable task.And lives are at stake. So we're trying hard. We shouldn't give lip service to ideas like uncertainty. It takes a whole book or indeed a whole inserto to beat them into your head.
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