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Oded Galor: ‘Cultural traits are very persistent’

The developmental economics professor on how deep-rooted attitudes are holding back poorer nations
In his book ‘The Journey of Humanity’, Oded Galor says less wealthy societies that persist with monoculture struggle to adapt to modernity

Oded Galor is an optimist about the world, despite his reasons for pessimism. Perched in a corner of a London café to discuss the publication of a book that took him 30 years to produce, the economics professor at Brown University in the US points to the fact that we are meeting in person.

“If Covid had occurred two centuries ago, we would have been trapped for a long period and mankind would have been devastated, but in a short period [vaccines] were developed. Here we are without masks, and we can converse. That’s the power of innovation,” he remarks.

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