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Robin Hanson: How Global Elites Manufactured Stagnation and How We Escape

From the New World

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Progress Studies - What Is Getting in the Way of Economic Progress?

Government policies aren't set by careful, data based arguments. Instead they are often set by emotionally manipulated voters and activists who reject evidence which disproves their assumptions. The enemy of progress is emotional manipulation. It is speech norms that prefer emotional safety to truth. It is the governing by moral panic that prefers viceral reaction to cost benefit analysis. In short, i'm sorry, progress studis friends, but there is an enemy, and they are right there.

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