Charlie Rose with Milton Friedman; Laura Tyson & Paul Romer (June 1, 1999)
EconLog (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... the physical infrastructure, the financial infrastructure, etc. Gardner sees a conflict between Paul Romer, who seems to think that the problem of poverty can easily be alleviated with better institutions, and others who see culture as more difficult to change. Gardner cites Bill Easterly and Joel Mokyr as seeing a larger role for culture, and he could have added Douglass North as...
Ben Casnocha: The Blog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... of oligarchy, and there is no reason to believe that laissez-faire will do the trick." Paul Romer : "Everyone wants growth but nobody wants change. You've got to have both or you've got to have neither." Paul Romer on American culture: "It's the kind of culture that can tolerate rap music and extreme sports that can also create space for guys like Page and Brin and Google."...
Marginal Revolution (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
That's the title of the new and self-recommending book by Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz. This work has text by the authors, interspersed with interviews with famous economists, including Robert Fogel, Robert Solow, Joel Mokyr, Doug North, Bill Easterly, Edmund Phelps, Amar Bhide, William Lewis, and Bill Baumol. Here is Paul Romer: It's the kind of culture that can tolerate rap music and...
