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Alex Tabarrok: belief

23 Aug 2023 Conversations with Tyler Celebrating Marginal Revolution's 20th Anniversary

“Then what was peculiar, I think strange — so I had that role, and then Tyler started Fast Grants.”

— Alex Tabarrok

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Alex Tabarrok
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belief
Recorded
23 Aug 2023
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…First Doses First. First Doses First and fractional dosing and using incentives, Operation Warp Speed, all that kind of stuff. Then what was peculiar, I think strange — so I had that role, and then Tyler started Fast Grants. So, we both had this tremendous involvement in one way or another, but in a very different respect. MR became an information clearinghouse with other blogs gone. Clearly, there was Twitter for the pandemic, but if you wanted one website where you didn’t have to scroll or fend off other things, we made that the place to go. It’s amazing to me, in retrospect, how many people have held that against us, because a lot of what we did was just covering different facts.…

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