The Green Spontane Hypothesis Is a Big Mistake

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Most economists agree that tax preferences for owner occupied housing are a bad idea. If they had been listened to on that, well, we still might have had a crisis of some kind,. but it would have been far smaller. So te regulation, especially of financial arkets, i think, was harmfulan competition policy wasit was a failure....

Paul Romer makes his second appearance to discuss the failings of economics, how his mass testing plan for COVID-19 would work, what aspects of epidemiology concern him, how the FDA is slowing a better response, his ideas for reopening schools and Major League Baseball, where he agrees with Weyl’s test plan, why charter cities need a new name, what went wrong with Honduras, the development trajectory for sub-Saharan Africa, how he’d reform the World Bank, the underrated benefits of a culture of science, his heartening takeaway about human nature from his experience at Burning Man, and more.

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Recorded May 13th, 2020 Other ways to connect

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