Done Quote by Paul Romer

Charter Cities has been approached in many different ways, by many people acting as individuals or as representatives of organizations.

— Paul Romer

For a nation, the choices that determine whether income doubles in one generation or two dwarf all other economic policy concerns.

— Paul Romer

Unfortunately, we don't have a bankruptcy process. Suppose the state actually just gets to the point where it cannot meet all of its promises…

— Paul Romer

I'd rather live in a world where firms don't have these enormous incentives to spy on individuals.

— Paul Romer

Good law includes a commitment to transparency and an insistence that no person or entity with a conflict of interest should have influence on…

— Paul Romer

No one from Charter Cities, can have any financial interest in any project in Honduras; no one can accept consulting fees from the Honduran…

— Paul Romer

In the 1950s, Hong Kong was a place where millions of people could go, from the mainland, to start in jobs like sewing shirts,…

— Paul Romer

In the developing world, most people don't yet live in big well-run cities. Given the chance to move to one, hundreds of millions of…

— Paul Romer

Fracking is an amazing instance of discovery of many things that come together to make it much cheaper to extract oil and gas. In…

— Paul Romer

My number-one recommendation is to invest in people. Humans that are well trained are the inputs into this discovery process. And there's big opportunities…

— Paul Romer

After 1960, anyone who wanted to discuss almost any aspect of U.S. public policy - from how to make cars safer to whether to…

— Paul Romer

The economy is this huge innovation discovery machine. What the government can do usefully is to focus some of that effort where things turn…

— Paul Romer