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Caleb Watney on *Cracks in the Great Stagnation* and How to Boost Economic Growth
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Caleb Watney is the director of innovation policy at the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) and he joins Macro Musings to talk about his recent piece, *Cracks in the Great Stagnation* and the reasons why we should all be techno-optimists. Specifically, David and Caleb discuss greater skilled immigration, further government R&D spending, innovative energy solutions, and more as ways to help repair an economy plagued by secular stagnation.
Transcript for the episode can be found here.
Caleb’s Twitter: @calebwatney
Caleb’s PPI profile: https://www.progressivepolicy.org/people/caleb-watney/
Related Links:
*Cracks in the Great Stagnation* Caleb Watney
https://www.agglomerations.tech/cracks-in-the-great-stagnation/
*The Egghead Gap* by Caleb Watney
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-egghead-gap
*Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?* by Nicholas Bloom, Charles Jones, John Van Reenen, and Michael Webb
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20180338
*Is the Rate of Scientific Progress Slowing Down?* by Tyler Cowen and Ben Southwood
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cEBsj18Y4NnVx5Qdu43cKEHMaVBODTTyfHBa8GIRSec/edit
*The Productivity J-Curve: How Intangibles Complement General Purpose Technologies* by Erik Brynjolfsson, Daniel Rock, and Chad Syverson
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w25148/w25148.pdf
David’s blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com David’s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth
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Manage episode 282547590 series 2461388
Caleb Watney is the director of innovation policy at the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) and he joins Macro Musings to talk about his recent piece, *Cracks in the Great Stagnation* and the reasons why we should all be techno-optimists. Specifically, David and Caleb discuss greater skilled immigration, further government R&D spending, innovative energy solutions, and more as ways to help repair an economy plagued by secular stagnation.
Transcript for the episode can be found here.
Caleb’s Twitter: @calebwatney
Caleb’s PPI profile: https://www.progressivepolicy.org/people/caleb-watney/
Related Links:
*Cracks in the Great Stagnation* Caleb Watney
https://www.agglomerations.tech/cracks-in-the-great-stagnation/
*The Egghead Gap* by Caleb Watney
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-egghead-gap
*Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?* by Nicholas Bloom, Charles Jones, John Van Reenen, and Michael Webb
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20180338
*Is the Rate of Scientific Progress Slowing Down?* by Tyler Cowen and Ben Southwood
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cEBsj18Y4NnVx5Qdu43cKEHMaVBODTTyfHBa8GIRSec/edit
*The Productivity J-Curve: How Intangibles Complement General Purpose Technologies* by Erik Brynjolfsson, Daniel Rock, and Chad Syverson
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w25148/w25148.pdf
David’s blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com David’s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth
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