Naatl is actually my favourite language when i hear it. But i would predict in less than 200 years, it will be gone. Gallic is made somewhat of a comeback, but it's still up in the air,. Would you have written on onest ointe? Would you write the same book to day? Not the same book a but when i reread that book, i think i capture the multiple layers of how globalization is dynamic and creative and welfare enhancing, but dangerous and stockdepleting. And giving us this funny monoculture of extreme diversity - all being a bit diverse in the same way.
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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