Guiding a High School Student's Career Aspirations Toward Improving Productivity

Eli Dourado is the chief economist at the Abundance Institute and writes and thinks about how to increase the pace of American economic growth.

Episode transcript

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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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