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real income growth, widely distributed, of about 2 to 3 percent a year. Maybe that sounds good to you, but if you’ve read this far, you know I think it is currently impossible. We don’t have the low-hanging fruit to make such a scenario real.

Tyler Cowen • The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better: A Penguin eSpecial from Dutton

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An interview with Patrick Collison – High Growth Handbook

Elad Gil growth.eladgil.com

Researchers at the University of Chicago and Stanford measured America’s economic growth per person from 1960 to 2010 and concluded that up to two-fifths of America’s increased prosperity during that time can be explained by better identification and allocation of talent.

David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America

Tyler Cowen has argued that one of “the most valuable things you can do with your time and with your life” is to believe in people.⁠

Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life

First, there will be an incentive to find some asset other than money to save with.

Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism

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 st... See more