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Top 20 Alex Tabarrok Quotes (2025 Update)

Alex Tabarrok Quote: “The only way to thrive is to innovate. It’s that simple.”

1. “The only way to thrive is to innovate. It’s that simple.”

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Alex Tabarrok Quote: “Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that ‘fine-tuning’ the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.”

2. “Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that ‘fine-tuning’ the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.”

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Alex Tabarrok Quote: “A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But lets remember that, despite being a poor country, Indias democracy meant that its government never let millions of people starve.”

3. “A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But lets remember that, despite being a poor country, Indias democracy meant that its government never let millions of people starve.”

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Alex Tabarrok Quote: “If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.”

4. “If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.”

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Alex Tabarrok Quote: “Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents too strong, then you can leach the land, making growth more difficult.”

5. “Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents too strong, then you can leach the land, making growth more difficult.”

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Alex Tabarrok Quote: “Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most – not to the students, but to everyone else.”

6. “Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most – not to the students, but to everyone else.”

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Alex Tabarrok Quote: “Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.”

7. “Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.”

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Alex Tabarrok Quote: “Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.”

8. “Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.”

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Alex Tabarrok Quote: “Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn’t pay, so sometimes it’s a little bit difficult going back and forth to navigate these differences.”

9. “Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn’t pay, so sometimes it’s a little bit difficult going back and forth to navigate these differences.”

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Alex Tabarrok Quote: “College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don’t help them very much in the job market. It also has been oversold to the taxpayers, who foot the bill for subsidies that do nothing to encourage innovation and economic growth.”

10. “College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don’t help them very much in the job market. It also has been oversold to the taxpayers, who foot the bill for subsidies that do nothing to encourage innovation and economic growth.”

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Alex Tabarrok Quote: “The first thing you learn when you’re blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you’ve got to get to the point, you can’t waste people’s time, you’ve got to give them some value for their limited attention span.”

11. “The first thing you learn when you’re blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you’ve got to get to the point, you can’t waste people’s time, you’ve got to give them some value for their limited attention span.”

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Alex Tabarrok Quote: “More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers – these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.”

12. “More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers – these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.”

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Alex Tabarrok Quote: “I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it?”

13. “I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it?”

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Alex Tabarrok Quote: “It would be really great if I discovered a cure for cancer, but it would only be a little bit less great if my neighbor did. So I am pretty happy when my neighbor becomes wealthier, better educated and more innovative. I feel the same about China and India.”

14. “It would be really great if I discovered a cure for cancer, but it would only be a little bit less great if my neighbor did. So I am pretty happy when my neighbor becomes wealthier, better educated and more innovative. I feel the same about China and India.”

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Alex Tabarrok Quote: “Well-roundedness comes not from sitting in a classroom but from experiencing the larger world.”

15. “Well-roundedness comes not from sitting in a classroom but from experiencing the larger world.”

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Alex Tabarrok Quote: “I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.”

16. “I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.”

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Alex Tabarrok Quote: “It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty.”

17. “It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty.”

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Alex Tabarrok Quote: “Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it’s clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren’t very virtuous.”

18. “Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it’s clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren’t very virtuous.”

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Alex Tabarrok Quote: “Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm that has ‘sold out’ has succeeded, but an artist that has ‘sold out’ has failed.”

19. “Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm that has ‘sold out’ has succeeded, but an artist that has ‘sold out’ has failed.”

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Alex Tabarrok Quote: “As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.”

20. “As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.”

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Alex Tabarrok Quote: “Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It’s about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.”

21. “Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It’s about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.”

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Alex Tabarrok Quote: “I encourage everyone I know to sign an organ donor card, but if someone doesn’t want to sign, that’s his or her choice. If someone isn’t willing to give an organ, however, why should that person be allowed to receive an organ?”

22. “I encourage everyone I know to sign an organ donor card, but if someone doesn’t want to sign, that’s his or her choice. If someone isn’t willing to give an organ, however, why should that person be allowed to receive an organ?”

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Alex Tabarrok Quote: “Michael Moore didn’t have to worry that anyone would misinterpret the title of his film, ‘Capitalism: A Love Story,’ because in Hollywood, no one loves capitalism. That’s too bad, because Hollywood is one of capitalism’s greatest successes.”

23. “Michael Moore didn’t have to worry that anyone would misinterpret the title of his film, ‘Capitalism: A Love Story,’ because in Hollywood, no one loves capitalism. That’s too bad, because Hollywood is one of capitalism’s greatest successes.”

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