Conversations with tyler is produced by the mercatus center at george mason university, bridging the gap between academic ideas and real world problems. Paul romer: If i look at the big catch up winners over the last few decades, it seems to me it's poland and ireland. And they basically followed an a neo liberal recipe. They more or less did what economists told them to do....
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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