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1. I listen to podcasts while doing other things: engineering work, washing dishes, gardening. Not everything requires full attention.
2. There are four types of economist: ideological, mathematical, experimental, and historical. I find the last most interesting.
3. Why the Industrial Revolution happened when and where it did is one of the big questions of human history, and that's where Prof. Moklyr specialises. But it's been a long time since I listened to this podcast.