I Worry About Groups

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I worry about groups. Think i know that an, i h having had family and friends in the in that research world, there's a lot of fads. There are things, there's political correctness. Are not of the necessarily the kind that people think about in campus life,. But within ideal within fields, within science, there're political correctnesswhat it's ok to think about.

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.