Paul Romer: evaluation

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…If you’re called into a White House and asked to give advice — how could the United States promote innovation? — what might you say? I know it’s a big long list, but where would you start? The way I constrain people with that question is, “Okay, what’s your first priority?” [laughter] Or, “If you go into the office on Monday, what are you going to work on, on Monday? ” I’m really opposed to these long-list policy exercises because it tends to become this political thing. It’s like, “Oh yeah, this is why the World Bank used and so much.” It’s like, “Well, we’re in favor of technological change. Oh, but and we’re in favor of this and this.” And every interest group gets on the list. We can search this transcript for how many times we each use the word and.…

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