It is a good narrative, but incomplete. Does the Hayek-Polanyi axis really explain WWI? and decolonization? Isn't it more the force and fraud institutions and mentality persisted sort of like our hunter-gatherer preference for sugar and fat cause problems for our different lifestyle? And should anyone who believes in the Fall have ever expected utopia?
It's probably not the centerpiece of the talk (for which your narrative is good and useful; I don't meant the first paragraph to be a criticism of the presentation per se) but looking at our role as economists in the post 1870 world (I think we actually really had it nailed pre 1870) would be an interesting next project. And not just an explanation of what happened, but taking an out on the limb position on what is should have been. [The similarity of my earlier suggesting about analysis of economic policy in Antiquity should be obvious. :)]
It is a good narrative, but incomplete. Does the Hayek-Polanyi axis really explain WWI? and decolonization? Isn't it more the force and fraud institutions and mentality persisted sort of like our hunter-gatherer preference for sugar and fat cause problems for our different lifestyle? And should anyone who believes in the Fall have ever expected utopia?
It's probably not the centerpiece of the talk (for which your narrative is good and useful; I don't meant the first paragraph to be a criticism of the presentation per se) but looking at our role as economists in the post 1870 world (I think we actually really had it nailed pre 1870) would be an interesting next project. And not just an explanation of what happened, but taking an out on the limb position on what is should have been. [The similarity of my earlier suggesting about analysis of economic policy in Antiquity should be obvious. :)]