"I attended Harvard...and most of the people there are as well-meaning as any you might find in Idaho or West Virginia."https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-01/let-harvard-be-harvard-only-bigger?utm_medium=social&utm_content=view&utm_source=twitter&cmpid%253D=socialflow-twitter-view&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic …
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Replying to @tylercowen
An important observation! It has to be paired with an understanding that some kind of elite in a society is necessary and unavoidable.pic.twitter.com/gd5cqvGsI8
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Replying to @SamoBurja @tylercowen
Different elites will have different effects on society. The institutions of society are manned, maintained and built by them after all. Institutions oriented towards growth are the product of elites oriented towards growth.
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Replying to @SamoBurja @tylercowen
Interventions in elite reproduction can then notably change the landscape one or two generations later. It is however hard to craft such an intervention!
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You might be interested this post dealing with how adoption can be used as a mechanism of elite reproduction ... and further what I think is an open question as to what kind of mechanisms American society can or should use.https://medium.com/@samo.burja/how-roman-emperors-handled-the-succession-problem-730f15b812f …
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