What Did You Learn at Burning Man?

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The scale of everything at burning man was just totally unexpecteda a total surprise for me, even having looked at all these pictures and so forth. What people do if you put them in a setting where there's supposed to be no compensation, no quid proquo, what do they do? They work. People work hard because they like it. And that's kind of an encouraging insight, i think, about people....

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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