What Did You Learn From Your Mother?

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Paul romer: I've wondered if there was something about kind of the mountain west that then moving to the east coast, made us both willing to work on things that weren't axcepted. What did you learn from your mother? Well, my mother, she risked seven kids. So what i got from her, i think, were the kind of the emotional capacitiesthat you get if you can grow up in a supportive environment. Andl look fowrd to coming back.

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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