i think it's hard to dismiss this methodology without also dismissing the nobelle prize itself. What you see is that physics can has this a, this picture the kind of accords in some way with that of t f b. And then chemistry andand medicine, slash physiology, i it'sit's kind of high variancs, but it looks relatively flat. You know, on some level, on some very naive level, that does suggest that, for example, researchers, like an individual researcher is becoming a kind of 50 xs less lightly to produce significant work.
Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the pace of innovation. Collison argues that despite enormous increases in the numbers of scientists and researchers, the pace of progress in scientific and technological understanding does not seem to be increasing accordingly. The conversation looks at the challenge of measuring innovation and whether the pace of innovation should be a matter of concern and if so, what might be done about it.