373 "Notes on White Privilege" w/ Adam Davidson and Thomas Chatterton Williams
The Fifth Column
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Why Are Some Countries Doing Well and Some Aren't?
i worry about a ideological respective that endangers the imperfectly meritocratic systems that do exist. I often say like the field of economics was essentially started with adam smith's and inquiry into the causes of the wealth of nations. And we still don't really have an answer. The best answer right this minute is from rog chetty at harvard, that just moving people from baltimore to suburban montgomery county get people like that. That is wen ause, ecause there's actually, like, natural experiments where people with very similar backgrounds areme if you look at immigrants, you know, there's a selection bias.
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