2020-10-20
1 小时 26 分钟Look, I want a small government,
but I want a government to be able to do what it's supposed to do at the time it's supposed to do it.
Okay.
Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Professor Alex Tabrock,
who's the Bartley J Madden chair of economics at the Mercado center and a professor of economics at George Mason university.
And of course he's the co-author of the popular marginal revolution blog with professor Tyler Cowan,
who I've also had the pleasure of talking on with the podcast.
So, uh, professor, thank you for coming on the podcast.
That's great to be here.
Awesome.
Okay.
So the, first I want to ask you about, uh, the grand innovation prize.
Can you explain what this is?
And I'd like to ask you some more questions about it.
Sure.
I mean,
the basic issue is that clearly speed really matters at this point in time in the midst of the pandemic.
We've already been too slow.
We've been behind the virus every single step of the way.
So we want to find a way of speeding up the incentives to produce a vaccine or a diagnostic or a therapeutic.