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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 32 quotes by Alex Tabarrok Alex Tabarrok speaking at TED in 2009. Photograph by Bill Holsinger-Robinson. Alexander Taghi Tabarrok (born 1966) is a Canadian-American economist and co-author, with Tyler Cowen, of the economics blog Marginal Revolution. Tabarrok and Cowen have also ventured into online education with Marginal Revolution University. Both Cowen and Tabarrok are professors at Virginia's George Mason University and fellows with the school's Mercatus Center. In... Read full biography of Alex Tabarrok → 1 2 3 Ctrl → Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower... → 0 More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since... → 0 Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system. 0 Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents too strong... → 0 Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students... → 0 Well-roundedness comes not from sitting in a classroom but from experiencing the larger world. 0 America has the highest standard of living of any major country in the entire world. To maintain and enhance that standard of living, America should... → 0 There is no right to a job or a wage rate, but there is a right to move from one country to another in search of a better life. This is the point of... → 0 I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the... → 0 Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and... → 0 The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year degree... → 0 The term 'natural resources' confuses people. 'Natural resources' are not like a finite number of gifts under the Christmas tree.... → 0 When the FDA forces an old drug off the market, patients have very little say in the matter. Patients have even less of a say when the FDA chooses... → 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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