John Nye on Revisionist Economic History and Having Too Many Hobbies
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The Problem With Meritocracy in America
I would like to see objective tests and standards used to judge quality whenever possible. The rise of an anti-mericratic notion or the idea that meritocracy should be adjusted for social needs has made it very hard to have, I think, state-of-the-art production in many areas. Is there a bilateral approach to trade agreements that today could give us free trade than multilateralism? For example, I'm just throwing this from out of nowhere. If the US were to negotiate a genuinely strong bilateral agreement with the UK and perhaps one Asian partner, I wouldn't be surprised if that would essentially create huge incentives for most of the EU and large chunks of Asia to join in
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