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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 unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.

~Alex Tabarrok

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I encourage everyone I know to sign an organ donor card, but if someone doesn't want to sign, that's his or her choice. If someone isn't willing to give an organ, however, why should that person be allowed to receive an organ?

~Alex Tabarrok

Topics: Allowed Card Choice Donor Encourage Everyone Give Her His However Know Organ Person Receive Should Sign Someone Want Why Willing

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The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.

~Alex Tabarrok

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Well-roundedness comes not from sitting in a classroom but from experiencing the larger world.

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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.

~Alex Tabarrok

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The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to get to the point, you can't waste people's time, you've got to give them some value for their limited attention span.

~Alex Tabarrok

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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 study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else.

~Alex Tabarrok

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College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don't help them very much in the job market. It also has been oversold to the taxpayers, who foot the bill for subsidies that do nothing to encourage innovation and economic growth.

~Alex Tabarrok

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Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents too strong, then you can leach the land, making growth more difficult.

~Alex Tabarrok

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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 view of Thomas Jefferson, John Locke and other great supporters of the natural rights tradition in America.

~Alex Tabarrok

Topics: America Another Better Better Life Country Great Jefferson Job John Life Move Natural Natural Rights One Country Other Point Point Of View Rate Right Rights Search Supporters Thomas Thomas Jefferson Tradition View Wage

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Economist

Born: Unknown

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