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01 / belief
“One thing that I think David Laibson and I, I hope, did very well and certainly tried very hard to do and seemed to be something that the students appreciated was convey our enthusiasm and excitement for economics.”
02 / belief
“Sturm — just the level of rigor he brought to proofs and thinking was something that I learned a huge amount from.”
03 / belief
“I think that’s a great place where more competition and more choices. I’m fine with the big tech companies entering it.”
04 / belief
“The regional development — “We’re going to go into this area, create this new cluster, create this new industry” — I think that’s littered with a history of failures.”
05 / belief
“We’ve learned about weaknesses and deficiencies in the structure of our labor markets — the ability to connect people with jobs, the ability of people to move after a shock happens, to get themselves retrained, to have some form of insurance that could help them in the event that their next job has a lower pay. So yes, that literature, together with other observations about what’s been going on with, for example, prime-age men in the workforce, has affected the way I think about the dynamism and efficient allocation of labor in the American workforce, much more than it’s affected the way I think about trade.”
06 / belief
“I would much rather have competition. I think what benefits consumers is choices, lower prices, more innovation.”
07 / belief
“Certainly, if you look at differences in mortality, differences in health outcomes — behavior, genetics, social environment — I think all matter a lot more than healthcare.”
08 / belief
“I think you do have a tradeoff between “are you getting more innovation” on the one hand and higher prices on the other hand.”
09 / belief
“When I’ve looked at that, there’s enough of a diversified world supply, enough of an ability to scale up if necessary in the United States, that I don’t think on semiconductors — there, it was protectionism under the guise of national security. So I think we should accept the possibility of national security, take it seriously, but be really, really wary that a lot of protectionist arguments use that trappings.”
10 / belief
“Economists who have been chair of the Council of Economic Advisers and read everything that Charles Dickens has ever written. But yeah, I think you’re kinder about me than I would be, frankly.”
11 / belief
“In part that’s more innovation. So in retail, the national numbers, I think, are really misleading.”
12 / belief
“There’s a set of costs and benefits. And I think the right way to get that mix of cost and benefits is, with the large companies, the lack of portability creates a barrier to entry.”
13 / belief
“I think market power is a problem in some sectors. I actually think the health sector is an example of where it is.”
14 / belief
“In fact, if anything, I think the error in policy is probably a little bit too much emphasis on manufacturing and a little bit less on services.”
15 / belief
“The inflation rate gets harder and harder to measure over time. So I think the one that probably has deteriorated in meaningfulness is the measure of inflation.”
16 / belief
“The tax proposals are coming from politicians, and yes, absolutely, your public choice models, I think, apply a lot more to those politicians.”
17 / belief
“I think so much damage was done to economic forecasting by the experience of the 1980s.”
18 / belief
“Not only do they patent, but Jennifer Hunt found that the Americans end up patenting more when they’re in the presence of those immigrants. This is something where I think we have a good enough set of micro data.”
19 / belief
“I think the truth is, when you go and quantify that type of public investment, it’s a couple tenths of a percent of the answer.”