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Curated author interviews on economics, history, science, psychology, and culture

Cambridge, New Zealand Katılım Temmuz 2012
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Podcast with David Reich about his article Ancient DNA Reveals Pervasive Directional Selection Across West Eurasia. Explains that natural selection has been rampant in the last 10,000 years, contrary to previous beliefs that it was quiescent. @dwarkesh_sp thepodcastbrowser.com/david-reich-wh…
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@henrycooke This is a political economy problem with people voting for Total Boomer Luxury Communism. We need to talk more about the improved equity effect of indexing super to just the CPI versus raising the age of entitlement, as argued by Heuser Whittington.heuserwhittington.com/insights/the-v…
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Last night I listened to David Reich’s interview with @dwarkesh_sp on his new Nature paper, “Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia.” dwarkesh.com/p/david-reich-2 Reich and his team present a method for detecting directional selection in ancient DNA time series, testing for consistent trends in allele frequency over time. They find that hundreds of alleles have been under strong directional selection, including alleles correlated with measures of cognitive performance. I have followed David Reich’s work for over a decade now and cite him in my economic history courses all the time. Nothing has changed my view of ancient history as much as his research, and the research his methods have triggered. His findings also bear directly on another line of work, “Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth” by @GalorOded and @Omer_Moav at the Quarterly Journal of Economics, which proposes a similar mechanism. Reich’s results give a serious empirical boost to Galor and Moav's research agenda. Reich returns several times in the interview to behavior related to what economists call the discount rate (without using such a term). The evidence suggests that humans began discounting the future less with the advent of agriculture, because directional selection favored patience. I’ve long thought modern schooling serves this same function, training people to defer immediate rewards for long-term gains, and that such training is the most valuable trait one can have in daily life. Contrary to the Foucaults and Freires of the world, that schools are boring is a feature, not a bug. I don’t expect anyone at the schools of education to get this.
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Podcast with Robert Caro about his books The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Discusses his research and writing process on the LBJ series, and the impact of his bestselling 1974 biography of NYC Parks Commissioner Robert Moses. @cspan thepodcastbrowser.com/robert-caro-th…
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