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phil
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Welcome @henryfarrell! Henry is a professor of international affairs and author of several books, including the award winning Of Privacy and Power. He has agreed to do an AMA for the /books channel. Reply with your questions (please make sure to tag him so he can easily find them)
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@henryfarrell It is widely reported that Silicon Valley, and the cryptocurrency industry in particular, are some of the largest donors to the upcoming political election in the U.S. Do you see that as acceptance of voice over exit from the technology industry, or part of a broader strategy to buy time while still ultimately focused on usurping existing institutions?
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Henry Farrell
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I think of this as voice in the _very_ limited sense that money talks - it is a pretty explicit threat that if you take positions we don't like, you will find huge amounts of money being spent to defeat you. Less persuasion than palm-greasing and panic-mongering. You could see it as buying into the existing political system (in a literal sense) but classical liberals like e.g. Adam Smith were highly skeptical of the role of such power mongering (also more recently the late Mancur Olson, whose books I warmly recommend)
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+1 on Olson; huge and foundational contributor to his field Back when I did my thesis on skills development and trade unions, I nonetheless argued against a U-curve in the context of skills development Can’t remember why but I suppose that’s part of why he has a Wikipedia page and I don’t!
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