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Alex Tabarrok
Canadian
Economist
Born:
1966
Been
Capitalism
College
People
Think
You
Related authors:
Adam Smith
Alan Greenspan
E. F. Schumacher
John Kenneth Galbraith
John Maynard Keynes
Milton Friedman
Paul A. Volcker
Thomas Sowell
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
Future
You
People
Key
College
Faster
Other
Enough
Other Countries
Innovate
Rates
More
Higher
Wrong
Study
Countries
Also
Educated
Educated People
Wages
Heard
Subjects
Times
Unemployment
Than
Going
Lower
Grow
Right
Million
Million Times
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
Time
You
Attention Span
People
Value
First
Some
Give
Point
Attention
Learn
Click
First Thing
Limited
Got
Leaving
Blogging
Get
The First Thing
Span
Them
Waste
Away
Thing
I encourage everyone I know to sign an organ donor card, but if someone doesn't want to sign, that's his or her choice. If someone isn't willing to give an organ, however, why should that person be allowed to receive an organ?
Alex Tabarrok
Organ
Everyone
Sign
Willing
Someone
Give
Allowed
Know
However
His
Encourage
Person
Donor
Want
Choice
Should
Why
Card
Her
Receive
Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents too strong, then you can leach the land, making growth more difficult.
Alex Tabarrok
You
Strong
Difficult
Increase
Too
More
Wisely
Like
Make
Chemicals
Making
Fertilizer
Patents
Land
Sparingly
Then
Many
Growth
Applied
Apply
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
Work
You
Writing
Strong
Sometimes
Differences
Pay
Difficult
Back
Bit
Claims
Attention
Academic
Make
Blog
Get
Going
Often
Want
Little
Little Bit
Forth
Navigate
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
Innovation
Other
Changing
India
Indian
Case
More
Small
Developed
Developed Countries
Nobel
Almost
Almost All
Countries
Longer
Came
Lot
Expect
Prizes
China
China And India
Chinese
Used
Even
Grow
Number
Today it is evident that we have two political parties: the Tax and Spenders and the No-Tax and Spenders. Neither party is fiscally conservative. Is there no room at the inn for an honest conservative? A conservative who makes the case for smaller government on its merits and not just as the fallback option when fiscal bankruptcy threatens?
Alex Tabarrok
Today
Government
Conservative
Political
Party
Evident
Neither
Threatens
Case
Smaller
Smaller Government
Merits
Parties
Makes
Fiscal
Fiscally
Fiscally Conservative
Political Parties
Option
Just
Tax
Bankruptcy
Room
Who
Inn
Two
Honest
Television is much more complex, brain-challenging and involved than it used to be. It's almost impossible to watch a television show from 15 years ago; it's just too boring. I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.
Alex Tabarrok
Impossible
Think
Too
Our
Minds
Complex
Television
Intricate
Television Show
Television Shows
Plots
Boring
More
Almost
Involved
Stimulating
Been
Years
Years Ago
Up
Than
Modern
Going
Just
Much
Used
Show
Reason
Shows
Watch
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
Will
Focus
Degree
College
Neither
College Degree
Percent
Only
Never
Students
Obsessive
Well
Within
Nor
Years
Than
Graduate
Six
Graduated
Taxpayers
Less
Who
Served
Four
Four-Year
Starting
Program
The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.
Alex Tabarrok
Simple
Thrive
Innovate
Way
Only
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
Grateful
Matter
Old
Be Grateful
Judgment
Market
Everyone
Appropriate
Approve
Say
Rely
Instead
New
Supposed
Make
Forces
Course
Off
Very
Patients
Little
Really
Choice
Chooses
Less
Even
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
Benefits
Increased
Increases
Trends
Security
Life Expectancy
Percent
More
Retirees
Longer
Since
Began
Than
Expectancy
Fewer
Substantial
Tax
Social
Workers
Meant
Payroll
Payroll Tax
Social Security
Larger
Program
As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.
Alex Tabarrok
Immigration
Birth
Only
Only Difference
Takes
Between
Longer
Concerned
Wages
Difference
As Far As
Far
Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm that has 'sold out' has succeeded, but an artist that has 'sold out' has failed.
Alex Tabarrok
Work
Art
Capitalism
Conflict
Work Hard
Too
Sold
Out
Consumers
Firm
Failed
Thus
Selling
Accused
Artist
Often
Artists
Want
Succeeded
Produce
Capitalists
Languages
Hard
Who
Even
Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.
Alex Tabarrok
Alone
People
Heroes
Action
Others
Virtue
Virtuous
Way
Defines
Self
Clear
Putting
Most
Very
Any
Wants
Hollywood
Then
Means
Capitalists
Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.
Alex Tabarrok
Work
Capitalism
Business
People
Wealth
Power
Prestige
Strive
Finding
About
More
Through
Pursuit
Like
Dominance
Egalitarian
Ordinary
Literature
Social
Hollywood
Meaning
Much
Production
Chooses
Who
Many
Works
Villains
Enjoyment
Michael Moore didn't have to worry that anyone would misinterpret the title of his film, 'Capitalism: A Love Story,' because in Hollywood, no one loves capitalism. That's too bad, because Hollywood is one of capitalism's greatest successes.
Alex Tabarrok
Love
Capitalism
Love Story
Too
Worry
Moore
Bad
Would
No-One
Because
Greatest
His
Michael
Anyone
Story
Title
Loves
Hollywood
Successes
Film
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