Village Global Podcast

What Alex Tabarrok Thinks About Basically Everything

Aug 1, 2019
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
The Biggest Contribution of the Field of Economics?
01:57 • 2min
3
Are We All Keynesians Now?
03:29 • 4min
4
Are the Critics of Macroeconomics the Best?
07:03 • 2min
5
Is Rent Control Coming Back?
09:10 • 2min
6
What's the Effective Immigration on Wages?
11:17 • 3min
7
Innovation, Dynamism - Is That the Consensus View in Economics?
14:16 • 3min
8
The Only Way to Increase Average Wages in the Long Run
17:26 • 2min
9
Do You Feel Like We're on the Right Side of History?
19:34 • 3min
10
Is There a Right Side to Liberalism?
22:06 • 3min
11
Is There a Limit to Long-Term Growth?
25:14 • 2min
12
The Basic Case for Open Borders
26:56 • 4min
13
Is Open Borders the Moral Thing to Do?
31:00 • 3min
14
Is There a Congestion Problem in Europe?
34:22 • 4min
15
Is There a Border?
37:53 • 2min
16
The Biggest Mistake That the US Has Made Is to Focus on Prisons
39:41 • 4min
17
What Is Your Utopie?
44:00 • 3min
18
Is There a Relationship Between Government and Public Goods?
46:32 • 3min
19
Is Facebook Dominating the Online World?
49:27 • 4min
20
Will China Compete With the United States?
53:14 • 2min
21
Are There Any Specific Experiments You'd Like to See People Run?
55:17 • 2min
22
The Trade-Off Between Innovation and Globalization?
57:00 • 3min
23
Should We Care at All About Population and Demographic Transitions?
59:44 • 4min
24
Is Mormonism a Great Religion?
01:03:23 • 2min
25
Is Wealth Inequality Rising?
01:05:52 • 3min
26
Democracy and Capitalism Are Not Compatible, Right?
01:08:55 • 3min
27
Do You Think We Will Have More Global Democracy?
01:11:33 • 2min
28
Is It a Corollary That Democracy Found Capitalism?
01:13:11 • 3min
29
Are the Elites Idiots?
01:16:10 • 2min
30
Prediction Markets Are Our Best Measure of Predicting the Future
01:18:10 • 2min
31
Inductive Versus Deductive in Economics?
01:19:42 • 2min
32
Are We Going to Create a Union Out of Intersections?
01:21:55 • 2min
33
Is There Anything You Think We Should Do About It?
01:23:54 • 3min
34
The Cost Disease or the Bomb Effect?
01:26:41 • 5min
35
How Would You Add You to Magic Wand?
01:32:08 • 2min
36
Is There a Trade-Off Between FDI and Healthcare?
01:33:53 • 4min
37
Why Democracies Don't Make Good Decisions
01:37:31 • 3min
38
Are We Going to Remake the World?
01:40:05 • 2min
39
Is It Bottoms Up or Bottom Up?
01:42:14 • 2min
40
How to Tell the Difference Between a Simple Question With a Complex Answer and an Alex Post
01:43:45 • 2min
41
The Importance of Tying a Stagnant Field Like Education
01:45:51 • 2min
42
Are You a Liberal Economist?
01:47:31 • 6min
43
Is There a Future for Behavioretics?
01:53:19 • 3min