I Loved What You Did, Padrick

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i'm not quite as convinced as youre that something obviously is happening that we understand. We do know that the number of working scientists has increased enormously, right? And s itink, it's kind of a very reasonable and valid question. Have we gotten a proportional increase in the rate of discovery? Right? I like, that should not be a hard question to answer.

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.