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Alex Tabarrok - Prizes, Prices, and Public Goods
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Alex Tabarrok is a professor of economics at George Mason University and with Tyler Cowen a founder of the online education platform http://MRU.org.
I ask Alex Tabarrok about the Grand Innovation Prize, the Baumol effect, and Dominant Assurance Contracts.
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Alex Tabarrok's and Tyler Cowen's excellent blog: https://marginalrevolution.com/
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Timestamps:
() - Intro
() - Grand Innovation Prize
() - Prizes vs grants
() -Baumol effect
() - On Bryan Caplan's case against education
() - Scaling education online
() - Declining research productivity
() - Dominant Assurance Contracts
() - Future of governance
() - On Robin Hanson's Futarchy
() - Beating Adam Smith
() - Our Warfare-Welfare State
() - The Great Stagnation vs The Innovation Renaissance
() - Advice to 20 year olds
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