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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

287 | Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History

2404.019 - 2425.527 Jean-Paul Faguet

He calls me up one day. We've been working together for years. He calls me up one day and he says, you know about the encomienda, this nasty institution? I'm like, yeah, yeah, I know. It was bad news during colonization. He's like, we have preliminary evidence that it's tied to better development outcomes all over Colombia. I'm like, you're kidding me. This can't be true.

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