Podcasts Education Self-Improvement Conversations with Tyler Paul Romer on the Unrivaled Joy of Scholarship

Paul Romer on the Unrivaled Joy of Scholarship

Published: Dec. 5, 2018, 1:19 p.m.

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Throughout his career, Paul Romer has enjoyed sampling and sifting through an ever-growing body of knowledge. He sometimes jokingly refers to himself as a random idea generator, relying on others to filter out the bad ones so his contributions are good. Not a bad strategy, as it turns out, for starting a successful business and winning a Nobel Prize.

Just before accepting that Prize, he joined Tyler for a conversation spanning one filtered set of those ideas, including the best policies for growth and innovation, his new thinking on the trilemma facing migration, how to rework higher education, general-purpose technologies, unlocking the power of reading for all kids, fixes for the English language, what economics misses about the \\u2018inside of the head,\\u2019 whether he\\u2019s a Jane Jacobs or Gouverneur Morris type, what Kanban taught him about management, his recent sampling of Pierce\\u2019s semiotics, Clarence White vs. Gram Parsons, his favorite Hot Tuna song, and more.

Read a\\xa0full transcript\\xa0enhanced with helpful links.

Recorded November 14th, 2018

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