Eli Dourado is the chief economist at the Abundance Institute and writes and thinks about how to increase the pace of American economic growth.
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Timestamps
(0:00:00) Intro
(0:00:43) Non-TFP econ metrics
(0:04:59) Are ideas getting harder to find?
(0:06:52) Economics as a field
(0:10:43) Tyler Cowen’s influence
(0:13:00) Culture and economic growth
(0:16:13) Uniqueness of the United States
(0:19:43) Education
(0:23:54) Revisiting “notes on technology”
(0:37:28) Investing in hard-tech
(0:44:30) Government’s role in tech
(0:49:22) Talent
(0:54:34) NEPA
(0:56:56) AI
(1:01:20) Societal collapse
(1:09:54) Advice to grow the economy
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Links
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