What Henry Farrell thinks about ideas vs execution
Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Henry Farrell has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThis means that highly transformative institutions will often look identical to ineffectual talking shops and indeed be identical to ineffectual talking shops.
↗Canada is cosying up to Europeprogrammablemutter.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsmuch cultural success is stochastic (the experimental evidence suggests that talent only moderately predicts success in culture markets), and that path dependence shapes chances of success
↗No-One Makes You Shop at Amazonprogrammablemutter.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsAll of these grand visions hide truths that are messier, more sordid and more contingent.
↗We're stuck in Philip K. Dick's imagined universeprogrammablemutter.com 3rd of 3 in this piece