Bryan Caplan on Learning across Disciplines (Live at Mason Econ)
Conversations with Tyler
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How Does Growth Affect Ideas?
Yap: People who have a higher income do not think more like economists, but people who either have experienced or expect higher income growth do. So there is that fact in my mind. And then there is also this big literature on on non convergence. Yap: Good ideas cause good policy, which is almost a tatlogy and good policy causes good growth. The last few years as cutting against my model, just because it seems like people are getting very angry when it's hard to find what the supposed cause of it is.
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