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295. Marian Tupy & Gale Pooley — Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Role of the Government in Innovation

The cost to ship a ton of a freight a over the ocean has fallen by 98 % since 19 56. The interstate road system begins to be built in the 19 late 19 fifties and isn't finished until 19 97. Gale, do you have any thoughts? You know, we jst go kind of back to this, when people say, what the government needs to do this,. i always remind myself, it's taxpayers that paid it, and they hired ontapenerial contractors to actually execute the vision.

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