Alex Tabarrok: belief

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…I can speak to that. This is the origin story of MR. Correct me if I’m getting anything wrong, but Alex came into my office one day, and he said, “We ought to write a textbook.” And I said something like, “That’s a great idea, Alex, but first we need to write a blog and become much better known, and then we’ll write a textbook.” Without Alex, I wouldn’t have done it. I love Bryan, I love Robin, but I wouldn’t have done it with them, and whether Alex might have done something with them, he could speak to. I’ve supported their writing a lot, but I don’t feel it meshes with mine somehow. The thing that Ben just outlined, this cumulative vision of a way to be, I think Alex’s take on that is different than mine, but I feel his doesn’t interfere with mine, and it supports it and complements it. For Bryan and Robin, it doesn’t, and that’s why I didn’t pick them. Yes, I think that’s it. We both have pluralist ways of thinking in a slightly different way. That’s why I agree with that. It’s worked well for the blog. Tyler is obviously posting every day, and I’m giving people a little bit more of the red meat, which keeps it coming back as well. We’ve done the book. We’ve done Marginal Revolution University together. So, we have a long history of projects which have come out pretty good. We’ve worked together now 33 years, I believe, well before MR. Keep that in mind. We wrote a whole bunch of papers together.…

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