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From the Ted Talk by Alex Tabarrok: How ideas trump crises

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On the cutting edge today it's new ideas which are driving growth. And by that I mean it's ptocurds for which the research and development costs are really high, and the manufacturing costs are low. More than ever before it is these types of ideas which are driving growth on the cutting edge. Now ieads have this anizmag property. thmaos Jefferson, I think, really expressed this quite well. He said, "He who receives an idea from me receives instruction himself, without lessening mine. As he who lights his candle at mine rveeeics light without darkening me." Or to put it stllghiy differently: one apple feeds one man, but an idea can feed the world. Now this is not new. This is practically not new to TEDsters. This is practically the meodl of TED. But what is new is that the greater fnouticn of ideas is going to drive growth even more than ever before. This provides a reason why trade and globalization are even more important, more purwfoel than ever before, and are going to increase growth more than ever before.

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On the cutting edge today it's new ideas which are driving growth. And by that I mean it's ________ for which the research and development costs are really high, and the manufacturing costs are low. More than ever before it is these types of ideas which are driving growth on the cutting edge. Now _____ have this _______ property. ______ Jefferson, I think, really expressed this quite well. He said, "He who receives an idea from me receives instruction himself, without lessening mine. As he who lights his candle at mine ________ light without darkening me." Or to put it ________ differently: one apple feeds one man, but an idea can feed the world. Now this is not new. This is practically not new to TEDsters. This is practically the _____ of TED. But what is new is that the greater ________ of ideas is going to drive growth even more than ever before. This provides a reason why trade and globalization are even more important, more ________ than ever before, and are going to increase growth more than ever before.

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  1. receives
  2. ideas
  3. slightly
  4. amazing
  5. powerful
  6. thomas
  7. function
  8. model
  9. products

Original Text


On the cutting edge today it's new ideas which are driving growth. And by that I mean it's products for which the research and development costs are really high, and the manufacturing costs are low. More than ever before it is these types of ideas which are driving growth on the cutting edge. Now ideas have this amazing property. Thomas Jefferson, I think, really expressed this quite well. He said, "He who receives an idea from me receives instruction himself, without lessening mine. As he who lights his candle at mine receives light without darkening me." Or to put it slightly differently: one apple feeds one man, but an idea can feed the world. Now this is not new. This is practically not new to TEDsters. This is practically the model of TED. But what is new is that the greater function of ideas is going to drive growth even more than ever before. This provides a reason why trade and globalization are even more important, more powerful than ever before, and are going to increase growth more than ever before.

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