Is It Easier to Measure Innovation Than to Adapt It?

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i, for me, huge theme in the book is that job satisfaction differ differs a whole lot across countries. And i think that the i endeavour to show are that differences in a job satisfaction are result of differences in dynamism. But em sense, a, it's a a little hard to measure dynamism. Even even measuring innovation seems to be versal, which surprises me. A, i and my co workers did the easy thing, and instead of making the a, the explanatory variable, something like the rate of innovation, we looked at modern values. We measured a, the extent to which people are seeking a an interesting job,. The extent to whichwhe when they're asked,

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.