Eli Dourado is the chief economist at the Abundance Institute and writes and thinks about how to increase the pace of American economic growth.

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Timestamps

(0:00:00) Intro

(0:00:43) Non-TFP econ metrics

(0:04:59) Are ideas getting harder to find?

(0:06:52) Economics as a field

(0:10:43) Tyler Cowen’s influence

(0:13:00) Culture and economic growth

(0:16:13) Uniqueness of the United States

(0:19:43) Education

(0:23:54) Revisiting “notes on technology”

(0:37:28) Investing in hard-tech

(0:44:30) Government’s role in tech

(0:49:22) Talent

(0:54:34) NEPA

(0:56:56) AI

(1:01:20) Societal collapse

(1:09:54) Advice to grow the economy

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Links

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