John MacIntosh: I've been reviewing your work, including these books and a stack of tapers here. He says there are two phrases that strike him again and again; one is when you talk about differential diagnostics. The other is what you call the epoch of the Anthropocene, he says. Macintosh: What brought into an era where human reason is in some sense running the shelf? And if I had to boil down my reread of you into a very short bulletin, that's what I would say.
Tyler Cowen and Jeffrey Sachs discuss the resource curse, why Russia failed and Poland succeeded, charter cities, Sach's China optimism, JFK, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, whether Africa will be able to overcome the middle income trap, Paul Krugman, Sach's favorite novel, premature deindustrialization, and how to reform graduate economics education.
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