I don't think we know how much the e p a matters, but i don't see any reason to deliberately do bad things with it. The political battles may not go down in history, is that big of a thing? And your ph d Adviser was thomas shelling, correct? How would shelling have looked at to day? One of his big influences on me was simply to get me to see nuclear weapons will always be the most ortant issue in the world - no matter what else you might think. Ihad a long conversation with challing about a year ago,. He passed away just this year so i asked him some of these questions.
A few months ago, Tyler asked Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe, to be on the show. Patrick agreed, but only under the condition that the be the one to do the interviewing. Thus, what follows is the conversation Patrick wanted to have with Tyler, not the one you wanted to have.
Happily Patrick stayed true to the spirit of Conversations with Tyler, and their dialogue covers a wide range of topics including the the benefits of diverse monocultures, the state of macroeconomics, Donald Trump, the amazing economics faculty at GMU, Peter Thiel, Brian Eno, Thomas Schelling, why Twitter is underrated, and — most pressing of all — why Marginal Revolution is so strange looking.
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Recorded January 25th, 2017 Other ways to connect
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