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Helen Dale's avatar

This is a great introduction to you, and not too long!

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John Alcorn's avatar

Arnold,

Over the years, you have been the most reliable public intellectual, analytically and normatively, across a diverse range of "shocks," which disoriented and divided observers; e.g., the financial crisis, the pandemic, sanctions, and crypto.

You have a rare ability and commitment always to write clearly and incisively about complex matters -- helpful to experts and non-experts alike.

You deeply engage a remarkable range of disciplines -- economics, philosophy (esp. epistemology), anthropology, evolutionary psychology, sociology, history -- in your quest to understand human interdependence, institutions, cooperation, and conflict.

You remind people, by example and by the FITs criteria, always to ask: Am I intellectually honest, even with myself? And what might change my mind?

Your comments section reflects your example.

And you generously encourage anyone who hopes to emulate these epistemic virtues.

Thank you!

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