Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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41 published records
01 / uncertainty
“I just didn’t know if there was some externality in the back of your mind on this that I wasn’t aware of, but given that I’m not hearing any, I don’t know why I should worry about it.”
02 / belief
“If you step back even before those, it’s, I think, a setting where society has really made it much easier for high-income, high-SES people to be able to engage in the types of things and buy the types of things that are associated with improved health.”
03 / belief
“I think the optimal work-from-home strategy is a couple of partners who are in an accounting practice and have decided they know each other perfectly well and are delighted to Zoom it in from wherever they are.”
04 / belief
“Remember, I’m an economist, which means that, like you, I believe that the real desiderate is choice.”
05 / belief
“I think that the story in Honduras shows that, that it’s very, very hard for a country to say, “Oh, we’re going to have this different jurisdiction run the city, and it’s going to be much more successful than the rest of the country, and we’re going to think that that’s okay.”
06 / belief
“I think that maybe some of what’s going on — which is that society is bifurcating along the haves and the have-nots based on socioeconomic status as opposed to race — that the have-nots are really a large share of the population, and the have-nots can’t afford to live in Silicon Valley, and they can’t afford to live in the Boston metro area, and they can’t afford to live in New York.”
07 / belief
“I think, for any city, figuring out how to get emergencies treated right away and to the right places, and then having those places do the right thing, is really important.”
08 / belief
“I think you hit on the big issue at the start, which is, how do you take people who have difficulty interacting with the medical system and for whom society has been somewhat unfair and at least try and improve some aspects — their health, their economic circumstances, but we’ll stick here with the health component.”
09 / belief
“Information can be ongoing and have huge impacts. And I think that’s what we’re picking up between the US and other countries.”
10 / belief
“I would say, actually, there are parts of Glasgow which are definitely underrated, but the physical bones of Glasgow are magnificent.”
11 / belief
“I think, in many cases, that would be a great thing to do, but it’s been very hard to move that politically, partially because of the strong opposition of the teachers’ unions.”
12 / belief
“My view is the resource curse tends to be in the intermediate levels, that once you have just an unbelievable amount of it, it tends to be much less of an actual resource curse.”
13 / evaluation
“Social services are weaker, the bus network doesn’t work so well, there are problems getting your car fixed at an affordable price, and in some ways, their poverty problems become worse.”
14 / belief
“I am never going to be as comfortable with that, despite the fact that I agree strongly that America and obesity is one of the health problems that made COVID so difficult here.”
15 / commitment
“I won’t do that because I have to worry about where do I put my things in the meantime, and I’m focused on the short run.”
16 / belief
“I think there are many excellent individual buildings. Bilbao Guggenheim. There’s a long list, but neighborhoods is where we’re falling short, not individual buildings.”
17 / belief
“The problem is here, we’ve had some starting point, which we think people should have the right to park anywhere they want for no cost or for some severely subsidized amount.”
18 / belief
“The kinds of contracts — based on the literature — I think are best, are you get paid a fixed amount for caring for the person.”
19 / belief
“Unless they make sure that they’re actually providing decent schools and safe streets, and doing so in a reasonable, cost-effective way, people will just run away. And unlike you, I don’t believe that’s a good thing because I think that when our geographic movements are determined by political dysfunction instead of economic reality, that’s bad.”
20 / belief
“If we think of the United States — as you know, in 1910, there’s a high degree of immigrant segregation.”
21 / belief
“The one failure of Brazil’s cities is that their police have failed, and that’s the one failure that I would say.”
22 / belief
“I agree with you in terms of the cost of American infrastructure. It’s a shocking thing how expensive it is to build.”
23 / belief
“Our view was that, in general, segregation is more harmful the less educated the group is.”
24 / belief
“If you want to talk about them, and you don’t believe they’re right, let’s absolutely have that conversation. But until we agree that there’s something better, this is how we’re going to practice.”
25 / belief
“If you’re telling me that it’s much more expensive to deal with poor people in suburban areas — something which I’m not totally confident that it is, but certainly, I believe that access to public transit is one reason why poor people tend to live in cities, then maybe you want to lean slightly against suburbanization of poverty.”
26 / belief
“I think the second one is that many of these are also coupled with systems where you can make more by making sure your patient appears to be sick.”
27 / belief
“Monterrey also has a very empowered university that’s highly competitive as well, that I think partially a force for good.”
28 / belief
“I think part of it is just that society is shaped by higher-income, higher-SES people, and that can be good for everyone who lives around those areas.”
29 / commitment
“I am going to be serving as the chair of my department and enjoying all the fun of administrative meetings on end for the next three years.”
30 / belief
“I think that the closer you get to native Americans, the more you look like native American health issues.”
31 / commitment
“First, I will be starting with David Cutler, who is professor of economics at Harvard.”
32 / evaluation
“One of the things — and I’m sure the libertarian in you wants to go there as well — is, I think, in general, it’s a bad idea where all of the public health of the country hangs on one agency so that if that agency has bad luck or bad leadership or just whatever happens, the power goes out, then nothing can happen.”
33 / evaluation
“The first approximation what matters is total calories in, but they’re probably types of calories and combinations of calories that lead to more or less weight gain.”
34 / evaluation
“What’s happened over time is that as infectious disease has declined, we’ve spent less and less money and less and less attention on the public health system until, basically, parts of it collapsed in COVID, and we realized, “Oh my God, it’s a bad idea to have a nonfunctioning public health system.”
35 / preference
“” If I really am going to start dieting and exercising next week, then it really doesn’t matter what I eat this week because everything will be fine.”
36 / observation
“The other famous example of where you can do that is, for example, in vitro fertilization, where the records of the different centers do seem to matter. That is, people will go more to the centers that have a good record because families are thinking about which centers should I go to and stuff like that.”
37 / prediction
“There’s a great paper by my colleagues, Roland Fryer and Tanaya Devi, that shows that after there were pattern-of-practice investigations of police forces that followed a viral incident of a police shooting, that crime rates spiked enormously, apparently, because police stopped going to high-crime areas when they came under investigation.”
38 / uncertainty
“Whether or not that means ubiquitous skyscrapers everywhere or more duplexes, I don’t know.”
39 / evaluation
“Google has actually been pretty good for health because now you can find out things about where can I go to get a COVID test, or what about flu shots, and so on.”
40 / preference
“” What we would hope they would do is go to their doctor and say, “Doctor, is there any way that there could be a cheaper medicine that might work because $30 is hard for me this month?”
41 / evaluation
“One of the things that I think the literature has not been as good at as it could be is the impact of the environment — not just environment in terms of green space and ability to walk on the streets, but the impact of the environment in terms of pollution and exposure to various substances and what that may then do to health.”