Below are three observations that caught my attention during the Cato Institute’s 6 October conference on “New Challenges to the Free Economy“:

1. Hal Varian (Google): Google has more than 60,000 patents. (See slide below from Professor Varian’s Cato talk.)
2. Matthew D. Mitchell (Mercatus): the Tullock paradox still hasn’t been solved. (Look it up!)
3. Bryan Caplan (George Mason): political discourse is about social desirability bias. (Me: what about academic discourse?)