“If you go back to the really long-run questions that interested me, th...” — Paul Romer Quote

“If you go back to the really long-run questions that interested me, the big question was why, over the centuries, the millennia, has growth been speeding up?”

“The general message is about a bigger global integrated economy is going to lead to faster growth, that policy could improve efficiency by getting more research going.”

“My number-one recommendation is to invest in people. Humans that are well trained are the inputs into this discovery process. And there's big opportunities still, I think, to do a better job of investing in people.”

“I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my car. And I try to stay in three different centuries.”

“Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitler's passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.”

“Damascus was the seat of the Ummayad Caliphate in the 7th and 8th centuries.”