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🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 86 minutes
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0:00.0 | Tetragrammaton. |
0:04.0 | Tetracket. |
0:07.0 | I think there are two core lessons to start with in economics. |
0:26.6 | The first is incentives matter. |
0:29.6 | So when you think about a social situation or an economy, |
0:32.6 | just try to figure out what all the incentives are. |
0:35.6 | It doesn't have to be money. |
0:37.5 | It could be fame or recognition |
0:39.3 | or just actually not wanting to have to work. |
0:42.2 | The second lesson of economics, as I see it, |
0:44.9 | is there is no free lunch. |
0:47.5 | So if you want to do something, |
0:48.8 | there's a trade-off, there's an opportunity cost, |
0:51.4 | don't think that you can just get something for free. So again, if you're |
0:55.1 | analyzing a choice and a business with respect to policy, if you don't understand what is the |
1:00.3 | opportunity cost, you probably don't know what you're doing. So I would say those are the two |
1:05.0 | key lessons of economics. Most good economics is fairly simple. If economics is super complicated, maybe I wouldn't entirely |
1:12.5 | trust it. And just take those as some key concepts out there to explore life. How different is |
1:18.9 | the theoretical versus the practical when it comes to economic matters? When the theoretical is |
1:26.4 | simple, it usually makes sense. So if you can explain an economic |
1:30.3 | idea to someone who is not an economist, that's a good sign. There's so much academic economics |
1:36.9 | out there. And some of it is very accurate, but often it's not that relevant. It's just designed to |
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