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 …

- Alex Tabarrok

I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.

- Alex Tabarrok

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

- Alex Tabarrok

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…

- Alex Tabarrok

What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well.

- Alex Tabarrok

It would be really great if I discovered a cure for cancer, but it would only be a little bit less great if my neighbor did. So I am pretty happy whe…

- Alex Tabarrok

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 rat…

- Alex Tabarrok

More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since t…

- Alex Tabarrok

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conserva…

- Alex Tabarrok