New York City Charts - What's at Stake?

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i don't think anybody thinks you could change this in new york. But yet, if you do move a few people to zuric, they'll start behaving people in zuric,. And then overtime, you could, you know, move everybody from new york to a place like zurich. The pedestrian norm in norms is, i think, a useful one, because it isn't too charged, politically or emotionally. It always stuns me in california, i walk out, jy, walking, and people half a mile away stop for me. O, i think this is a cosi an transaction, like i'm willing to just let you go

Throughout his career, Paul Romer has enjoyed sampling and sifting through an ever-growing body of knowledge. He sometimes jokingly refers to himself as a random idea generator, relying on others to filter out the bad ones so his contributions are good. Not a bad strategy, as it turns out, for starting a successful business and winning a Nobel Prize.

Just before accepting that Prize, he joined Tyler for a conversation spanning one filtered set of those ideas, including the best policies for growth and innovation, his new thinking on the trilemma facing migration, how to rework higher education, general-purpose technologies, unlocking the power of reading for all kids, fixes for the English language, what economics misses about the ‘inside of the head,’ whether he’s a Jane Jacobs or Gouverneur Morris type, what Kanban taught him about management, his recent sampling of Pierce’s semiotics, Clarence White vs. Gram Parsons, his favorite Hot Tuna song, and more.

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Recorded November 14th, 2018 Other ways to connect

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