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There is no right to a job or a wage rate, but there is a right to move from one country to another in search of a better life. This is the point of view of Thomas Jefferson, John Locke and other great supporters of the natural rights tradition in America.
- Alex Tabarrok
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#Great
#Life
#Search
#View
The term 'natural resources' confuses people. 'Natural resources' are not like a finite number of gifts under the Christmas tree. Nature is given, but resources are created.
- Alex Tabarrok
#Christmas
#Like
#Nature
#People
#Tree
Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes it's a little bit difficult going back and forth to navigate these differences.
- Alex Tabarrok
#Differences
#Difficult
#Sometimes
#Work
Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.
- Alex Tabarrok
#Democracy
#Ideas
#New Ideas
#New
#Try
I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.
- Alex Tabarrok
#Going
#Modern
#Reason
#Television
#Up
A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But let's remember that, despite being a poor country, India's democracy meant that its government never let millions of people starve.
- Alex Tabarrok
#Country
#Democracy
#Government
#Remember
More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.
- Alex Tabarrok
#Life
#More
#Security
#Social
#Trends
When the FDA forces an old drug off the market, patients have very little say in the matter. Patients have even less of a say when the FDA chooses not to approve a new drug. Instead, we are supposed to rely on the FDA's judgment and be grateful. But can the FDA really make a choice that is appropriate for everyone? Of course not.
- Alex Tabarrok
#Choice
#Grateful
#Matter
#New
#Old
People used to think that more population was bad for growth. In this view, people are stomachs - they eat, leaving less for everyone else. But once we realize the importance of ideas in the economy, people become brain - they innovate, creating more for everyone else.
- Alex Tabarrok
#Bad
#Brain
#Growth
#Ideas
#View
It used to be that almost all innovation came from the U.S. and a small number of other developed countries. That's no longer the case, and as China and India grow, it's changing even more. Expect a lot more Chinese and Indian Nobel prizes in the future.
- Alex Tabarrok
#Future
#Grow
#Indian
#Innovation
#More
The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to get to the point, you can't waste people's time, you've got to give them some value for their limited attention span.
- Alex Tabarrok
#Attention
#People
#Point
#Time
#Value
I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it?
- Alex Tabarrok
#Attitude
#Poverty
#Thinking
#View
#World
Well-roundedness comes not from sitting in a classroom but from experiencing the larger world.
- Alex Tabarrok
#Classroom
#Larger
#Sitting
#World
Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.
- Alex Tabarrok
#College
#Going
#Necessary
#Neither
#Nor
The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year degree program will graduate within four years, and less than 60 percent will graduate within six years. Students who haven't graduated within six years probably never will.
- Alex Tabarrok
#Degree
#Focus
#Four
#Never
#Will
The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.
- Alex Tabarrok
#Innovate
#Only
#Simple
#Thrive
#Way
Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.
- Alex Tabarrok
#Education
#Enough
#Future
#Grow
#People
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