Ep. 667: Timur Kuran Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following
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The Unthinkable in a Free Society
In Egypt, there was a very large constituency of people who knew what they were missing. In North Korea, we don't really know for sure if the people still have that private knowledge or are they just so far away from preference falsification because they're just kind of, I don't want to say drink the Kool-Aid. That's a little unfair. But you see where I'm going with this? Yes, absolutely. The Egyptian case we were talking about is not that extreme because Egyptians did have access to the Internet or at least half the society that was wealthy enough to have an Internet connection. They can stop, they can lose their ability to imagine what it would be like
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