Tyler Cowen on the Great Stagnation’s End
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Tyler Cowen on the Great Stagnation’s End
In 2011 Cowen published a digital pamphlet in which he argued that since the 1973 oil-price shock, America had experienced a hidden crisis of lost growth that would be resolved only by the development of new technology. He called this period the “Great Stagnation”, and he proposed a cultural solution rather than an economic one: raise the social... See more
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Why do you think that is? I think that does get to the class issue that you were talking about.
The center-left got very comfortable being the kind of meritocratic, technocratic elite that always had the right answer, you know, the kind of smarty-pants answer that everybody in there would congratulate them on.
And the
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