Eli Dourado

Eli Dourado is the chief economist at the Abundance Institute and writes and thinks about how to increase the pace of American economic growth. Episode transcript -- 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 -- Links - Follow Eli on X - Eli's blog - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow Dan on X⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Subscribe to Undertone on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Watch or listen to previous episodes of Undertone with ⁠⁠⁠⁠Tyler Cowen⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Vitalik Buterin⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Scott Sumner⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Samo Burja⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Steve Hsu⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠more⁠⁠⁠⁠ - I love hearing from listeners. Email me any time at [email protected] - Share anonymous feedback on the podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://forms.gle/w7LXMCXhdJ5Q2eB9A