Art carden, who is a professor at samford, sam. 0rd university in birmingham, alabama. Professor carden, what do you teach down there . I teach economics at stanford university. So introductory macroeconomics, intermediate macroeconomics, history and philosophy of politics and econ do you have a philosophy . Economics. You have a philosophy about economics . So im a believer that theres only one kind of economics. Theres good economics. My hope is that i practice good economics. It is what the social universe made out of. So if the physical is made out of mass, then the social is made out of economics. Its people responding to incentives in response to their constraints all the way down. It is essential, i think, to understanding the world works is something that you write. Your newest book, strangers with candy observations from the ordinary business of life nostalgia. The good old days puzzles me because they were horrible. Yeah, the good old days were terrible life for our ancestors
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