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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Steve Merski.

The benefits from science as they show up in our daily lives are just enormous.

But I want to try and argue that right now science can do something for us, give us a kind of hope that goes beyond just those benefits.

Paul Romer, he shared the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in

Economic Sciences. Romer spoke April 9th at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.

at an event honoring 10 U.S. Nobel and Cavley Prize laureates. Now, there's nobody who's got

benefits as direct and as immediate as Jim.

Jim Allison, who was also there and who shared the 2018 Nobel in physiology or medicine

for his work that led to new drugs against cancer.

You know, when you can show there are people alive now because of the discovery you've made,

that just, you know, that trumps everything.

Most of us create benefits in an indirect way,

and they come in small steps, so they're harder to perceive.

Rumer then cited William Nordhaus,

with whom he shared the 2018 economics prize.

Bill has this beautiful paper that measures a particular type of benefit, which is asking,

how much light in luminarys can somebody get from an hour's worth of work? And roughly speaking

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