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As AI displaces jobs, the US government should create new jobs building affordable housing
What if some displaced workers help build the housing we need?
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What GLP-1 drug price is cost neutral to Medicare?
Seemingly around $140/month
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Total Factor Productivity needs a rebrand (and if you don't know what that is you probably should).
The name of this hidden driver of prosperity is unappealing and not self-defining to mainstream people. What should it be called instead?
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The paradox of progress
If progress = rising living standards, why doesn’t a progress agenda command top billing in U.S. politics?
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A U.S.-China tech tie is a big win for China because of its population advantage
China’s population is declining, but UN projections show it will remain at least twice the size of the U.S.
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Progress isn't automatic
It takes considerable effort, education, organization, and money
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The key to increasing standard of living is increasing labor productivity
Unpacking this counterintuitive conclusion
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The debate over a potential economic bump from AI points to a much larger economic opportunity.
We can turn temporary economic productivity bumps into permanent higher economic growth through sustained higher investment in basic research.
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Issues with widespread bipartisan agreement that never go anywhere
A marker for why we need more structural governance reform.
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How science funding literally pays for itself
By growing the economy enough that future tax revenues exceed initial expenditure.
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Science funding was already way too low.
Restoring the status quo is not good enough; we should increase federal research funding to something like three times the previous level.
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