The end of our 50-year stagnation | Tyler Cowen

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🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Some believe our world has changed at a rapid pace in recent decades. From the rise of the internet to the proliferation of startups spinning out inventions, it can certainly seem that way. In this episode, though, economist Tyler Cowen argues that none of this has really transformed the ways we live over the last 50 years. But he contends that now that's changing, as new breakthroughs in science and medicine push us out of the so-called "Great Stagnation" into a new era of meaningful innovation.

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0:00.0	A Strangement takes many forms.
0:02.5	Sometimes we sever ties with our family or friends.
0:05.7	And sometimes they sever ties with us.
0:08.3	How many years would you say it's been since you have been in a room with your three kids?
0:14.0	2008?
0:15.5	14 years?
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