

Ph.D. Economist and Evaluator for Idaho Legislature's Office of Performance Evaluations. www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlangrill rlangrill@ope.idaho.gov
COWEN: I see a creeping deterioration of the belief in individual liberty as an important idea, rule of law, cosmopolitanism, just general respect and decency, even in some very good, nice countries. And this is one of them. I see that as getting weaker. I think it’s maybe a smaller move than a lo…
… clusters of people. You talk to them, and you learn areas by meeting them, and toss in some books. And you should read more and more in clusters, pick an area from a time in history and read in that, rather than reading a book.
COWEN: Single-issue blogs on issues of importance. If you take something like penal reform, an underrated cause. Prisons, I think, are barbaric, but it’s not an easy problem to solve. There’s not a quick fix. Some people do need to be constrained in some way. The idea that there sho…