))
Operation Warp Speed and the Triumph of Governance | Alex Tabarrok & Richard Hanania
Manage episode 343552236 series 3321519
内容由CSPI提供。所有播客内容（包括剧集、图形和播客描述）均由 CSPI 或其播客平台合作伙伴直接上传和提供。如果您认为有人在未经您许可的情况下使用您的受版权保护的作品，您可以按照此处概述的流程进行操作https://zh.player.fm/legal。
Alex Tabarrok is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He joins the podcast to talk about his involvement in Operation Warp Speed, a uniquely successful federal government project. Richard asks how broadly applicable its lessons are, whether or not we could do something similar for cancer, and why economists and public health officials had such divergent opinions on the need to speed up the process of approving and distributing a vaccine.
Alex also discusses the Baumol effect, which he argues can explain much about rising costs in healthcare and education. Richard pushes back on the theory as a sufficient explanation, and asks whether a simple libertarian story better fits the facts, arguing that government support for these industries also plays a major role.
They then go on to talk about the rise of crypto, why America is severely under-policed, and how recent years have seen the collapse of challenges to liberal democracy.
This podcast was originally released by the Salem Center.
Listen in podcast form or watch on YouTube.
Links:
* Paul Mango, Warp Speed: Inside the Operation That Beat COVID, the Critics, and the Odds.
* Eric Helland and Alex Tabarrok, “Why Are the Prices So Damn High?”
* “Under policed” tag at Marginal Revolution.
* Richard Hanania, “The Year of Fukuyama.”
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.cspicenter.com
70集单集
分享
