Alex Tabarrok
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240 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 9 Jun
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It's more or less what I do, right?
I mean, thousands of years later, maybe I'm using chalk or maybe I'm using PowerPoint, but basically, you know,
It's me and a few students, and productivity really has not gone up at all in the education industry.
So, because of that, prices have to go up because you take an industry where productivity is flat, and you might say, okay, well, prices are going to be flat, but no, no, because
All the other industries are improving in productivity.
And the education industry, they have to attract labor from those industries which are getting better.
So they still have to pay me as much as I would earn in another industry.
But my productivity hasn't gone up.
So that means prices have to go up.
So that's the basic Bommel effect is that industries, especially services where productivity is not going up, prices have to go up.
Yeah.
Look, look, I'm a free market guy.
You know, I'm anti-regulation, anti-bureaucracy, all that kind of stuff.
But you have to understand with these trends, we're talking about increases in prices, which have happened over 100 years.
And, you know, medical care, people were complaining about medical care going up in price.
In like 1920, 1930, this is before, you know, Medicaid, Medicare, before a lot of government involvement.
Education has been going up in price.
So I think it's deeper than just regulation.
And let me give you just one other example is.
Think about car repair, okay?
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