A, My, A, a - The Lone Shepherd

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A, i suggest that beeto, the last movement of beethoven's second symphony, is about trial and error. I think a, britain went from one city to five cities in short order. Andm probably, what is another definition, germanywent from one city in the nineteenth century to a hundred cities at the end of the century. So so the intellectual lifenand ethe stimulus of what's going on was so much richer in the nineteenth cet than it had ever been before.

Edmund Phelps of Columbia University, Nobel Laureate in economics, and author of Mass Flourishing talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book. Phelps argues that human flourishing requires challenges, struggles, and success and goes beyond material prosperity. He argues that in recent decades, policy has discouraged innovation and mass flourishing resulting in a slow-down in growth rates. Phelps emphasizes the non-material benefits of economic growth and the importance of small innovations over big inventions as key to that growth.