Alex Tabarrok Quotes

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• The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to get to the…
• If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it…
• Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.
• Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment…
• I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.
• I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges…
• Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.
• Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents too strong, then…
• It would be really great if I discovered a cure for cancer, but it would only be a little bit less great if my neighbor…
• Today it is evident that we have two political parties: the Tax and Spenders and the No-Tax and Spenders. Neither party is fiscally conservative. Is…
• More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security…
• As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.
• There is no right to a job or a wage rate, but there is a right to move from one country to another in search…
• People get used to more complex forms of entertainment, and they become bored by simpler forms. Television has become more complex in order to feed…
• Well-roundedness comes not from sitting in a classroom but from experiencing the larger world.
• Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students…
• Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.
• People used to think that more population was bad for growth. In this view, people are stomachs - they eat, leaving less for everyone else.…

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