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Ep. 69: Ben Landau-Taylor on social technology, institutions, and the future.

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The Power of Naming

i want to get your reaction to some ive always wanted to ask either you or or samo about this, and it has to do with with methodology, how you approach history. So i would say that the the school of economics that i aline most closely with is the austrian school of economics,. which famously takes this deductive approach to studying economic phenomena. And so for example, you can know that a doubling in the minimum wage will lead to unemployment axiomatically, just kind of follows a priori from analysis of the concepts. But in practice, people often won't make that decision because they know that, like, this is the fair wage, or this is what is

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