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Interview: Brad DeLong, author of Slouching Towards Utopia

Ordinary Astronauts

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The Two Heads Are Better Than One

Innovation and productivity growth is like has a non linear relationship with population growth. And as population scales, innovations and or for example, the number of patents scale nonlinearly. But I think you only see this from about minus 6000 to 150 or so,. From the invention of agriculture on up to the high points of the Roman Empire and the and the Han dynasty Empire.

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