I Regret the Time You Spent in the Bank, or What You Would Have Done Differently

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"What i regret is the dishonesty of the leadership in failing to just say what was, what was true," he says. "I spent months and months doing really simple things like trying to move two direct reports who reported to me." He quit after being told by his bosses that resigning would do 'enormous damage' To read more from John Defterios click here....

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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