052: Alex Tabarrok on Globalisation, Bounty Hunters and Leveraging Online Education - a podcast by Frank Conway - Economics and Finance Lecturer - interviews Dan Ariely, Deir
from 2015-10-01T04:30
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Alex Tabarrok is Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University and co-founder (with Tyler Cowen) of Marginal Revolution University, an online platform for learning economics.
Alex is a TED speaker with over 640,000 views of his TED talk, How Ideas Trump Crises.
In this episode, you will learn:
- how to ensure that criminals turn up of trial and to reduce the possibility of them becoming a fugitive.
- why bounty hunters and bail bondsmen are best for the taxpayer.
- why bounty hunters invited Alex Tabarrok to join them in a bounty hunt.
- why a mother’s signature on a bail bond is the most effective way of making sure a criminal repays its due.
- how the terror alert level results in an increase in police presence and results in a decrease in local crime.
- whether the best teachers have a positive impact on the future earnings of their students.
- if a country can have a welfare state and open borders.
- why immigrants to the United States are the most entrepreneurial.
- what Marginal Revolution University is about and who it’s for.
- how to leverage the best teachers and leverage their experience.
- how artificial intelligence and computer adaptive learning programmes will be the next wave of teaching and learning.
- and much more.
- Check out the shownotes and all of the books and resources mentioned in this episode at www.economicrockstar.com/alextabarrok
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