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Smith: Consumer Gains From Foreign Trade And Automation Are Functionally Identical
“In fact, in economic models, the gains from trade will look just like productivity. And there's a complete equivalence between those and a lot of models. So basically, if you have a robot to do something cheaply, you know, from the consumer's perspective, that…”
Smith: Economists Focus on Equilibrium While Ignoring Transition Paths
“Economists often think to the very end and think about equilibrium and ignore the path for how you get there.”
Smith: Access To Cheap Labor Reduces Incentives For Labor-Saving Innovation
“The natural implication of this is that basically the more cheap labor you get, the less incentive there is for labor-saving innovation, for entrepreneurs and technologists to invest in labor-saving innovation.”
Smith: Real-world political redistribution relies on inefficient market distortions
“In the real world, redistribution happens via things like the minimum wage or, you know, like letting the AMA decide how many doctors there's gonna be. So, so redistribution in the real world is not always the most efficient thing.”