Ep 176: The Nuances of Lockdown
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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How Important Was Garry Becker in the Way We Thought About the World?
I was actually very curious about the gary becker connection. When i read that he was one of your advisers, it struck me that he was, you know, almost the last intellectual of a certain kind. Almost everything i thought of, i thought through an economical ens and the reason was, was, barry said that you should, and that it was fruitful to do so. I mean, to day, the idea that you would take applied math and apply it to every single topic doesn't seem surprising. And there's some simple ideas that can help you organize those mathematical theories to whatever interaction humans have. Then i think the ultimate example of that actually is people applying it also to
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