Paul Romer on the Unrivaled Joy of Scholarship

<p class="graf graf--p">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.</p> <p class="graf graf--p">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 ‘inside of the head,’ whether he’s a Jane Jacobs or Gouverneur Morris type, what Kanban taught him about management, his recent sampling of Pierce’s semiotics, Clarence White vs. Gram Parsons, his favorite Hot Tuna song, and more.</p> <p class="graf graf--p"><a href= "https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/paul-romer-tyler-cowen-economics-education-growth-979315047773"> Transcript and links</a></p> <p>Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/paulmromer">Paul</a> on Twitter</p> <p>Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/tylercowen">Tyler</a> on Twitter</p> <p>More CWT goodness:</p> <p><a href="https://facebook.com/cowenconvos">Facebook</a></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/cowenconvos">Twitter</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.instagram.com/cowenconvos/">Instagram</a></p> <p><a href="https://mercatus.org/newsletters">Email</a></p>