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Alex Tabarrok - Prizes, Prices, and Public Goods
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Oct 19, 2020
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1h 26m
show avg 1h 44m
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Alex Tabarrok is a professor of economics at George Mason University and with Tyler Cowen a founder of the online education platform http://MRU.org. I ask Alex Tabarrok about the Grand Innovation Prize, the Baumol effect, and Dominant Assurance Contracts. Episode website: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/alex-tabarrok Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3TGYbIz Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3ADoIxq Follow me on Twitter to be notified of future content: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp Follow Alex Tabarrok: https://twitter.com/ATabarrok Alex Tabarrok's and Tyler Cowen's excellent blog: https://marginalrevolution.com/
- 0:00Intro
- 0:34Grand Innovation Prize
- 8:45Prizes vs grants
- 14:10Baumol effect
- 27:50On Bryan Caplan's case against education
- 31:35Scaling education online
- 48:50Declining research productivity
- 52:15Dominant Assurance Contracts
- 58:40Future of governance
- 1:04:05On Robin Hanson's Futarchy
- 1:06:02Beating Adam Smith
- 1:08:35Our Warfare-Welfare State
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