Stranded Technologies Podcast

Ep. 39: Alex Tabarrok on the Dance between Centralization and Decentralization in City Governance, Baumol Effect vs. Regulation in Increasing Price Levels and Economic Insights for Entrepreneurs

Mar 7, 2023
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
2
What Are Your Top Three Economic Principles?
02:40 • 3min
3
The Importance of Growth
05:57 • 2min
4
Is It Unintuitive to People?
07:58 • 5min
5
Smith Underestimated the Effect of Compounding Growths
13:24 • 2min
6
The Key Ingredients to Unleash Cut Up Entrepreneurship
14:59 • 4min
7
The Bottom Effect of Productivity Improvement in Massages
18:33 • 3min
8
Why Is It So Expensive to Get a Massage?
21:17 • 4min
9
The Barmel Effect Is a Good Thing About the World
25:12 • 2min
10
The Bumble Effect Explains Long Run Differences
27:32 • 4min
11
Is There a Bias in Macro?
31:20 • 5min
12
Regulation Is Not Getting Better, Right?
36:36 • 3min
13
Is There an Argument for Patents?
39:14 • 4min
14
Dominance Assurance Contracts
43:19 • 2min
15
Is There a Marketing Change in the Insurance Industry?
45:35 • 5min
16
Is This Really a Good Idea?
50:24 • 1min
17
The Competitive Federalism in the United States
51:48 • 3min
18
The Private City Model in India
54:49 • 6min
19
The Dance Between Bottom Up and Down
01:00:46 • 2min
20
Public Goods Funding
01:02:25 • 4min
21
What Is Red3 All About?
01:06:15 • 4min
22
The Dominant Assurance Contract
01:10:17 • 5min
23
How Big Should the Markup of the Refunds Be?
01:14:58 • 2min
24
Refund Bonuses for Early Investors?
01:16:41 • 3min
25
Is There a Risk in Raising Venture Capital?
01:19:30 • 2min
26
Are You Thinking About Aligning Incentives in Charter Cities?
01:21:02 • 4min
27
Is Your Sewage System Working? I Can Ask of It!
01:24:33 • 2min