What's Your Favorite Country to Travel To?

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i actually like those kind of stories where there's a kind of ameta element. In this story, he tells of being in dresden during the bombing and world war too. The book as his attempt, in some ways, toan cope with experience this, this really amazing tragedy. What's your favorite country to travel to, and why? Before we leave, rerebeating masis mention, somebody sent me,. just within the last two weeks, a reference to a philosopher in the us. Named pierce, carl sanders pierce here. Ye, brilliant man. And a bit like you in some ways. Well, that's it.

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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