I sometimes call Donald Trump the placebo president. He will talk a big game, but for domestic policy I think change remarkably little.
Tyler CowenEconomics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.
Tyler CowenWe need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.
Tyler CowenI'm not optimistic about reform in many, if any, policy areas at all. I think we'll make further progress by inventing new things that aren't much regulated yet and outracing bad policy. I look at so many policy areas - regulation, regulatory reform, health care reform - it's all failing, we're not making improvements, we're going backwards.
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