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Maxwell Tabarrok is an economics researcher at Dartmouth College and the author of the Maximum Progress substack. Maximum Progress is a blog about the economics, history, science, philosophy, and culture surrounding a single graph: World GDP Over the Last Two Millennia, The Great Fact, The Hockey Stick, The Arc of Human History. Please consider supporting our efforts at supporting independent research with a paid subscription or a one-time donation. Help Seeds (of Science) sprout this Spring/Summer with a 25% discount. ICYMI: Announcing the SoS Research Collective. The Collective is now active—check out the home page and our first crop (heh) of research fellows! Several posts back I wrote about the 2020 paper “Are Ideas Getting Harder To Find?” by Nicholas Bloom, Charles Jones, John Van Reenen, and Michael Webb. In the post, I explain the paper with a metaphor: Our economy is like a car. Jones et al point out that our fuel use (R&D investment) has been growing fast for 100 years but ou

The Best of Science Blogging Against the Burden of Knowledge Why the most intuitive explanation for ideas getting harder to find is wrong Seeds of Science Jun 26, 2024 62 12 7 Share Maxwell Tabarrok is an economics researcher at Dartmouth College and the author of the Maximum Progress substack. Maximum Progress is a blog about the economics, history, science, philosophy, and culture surrounding a single graph: World GDP Over the Last Two Millennia , The Great Fact, The Hockey Stick, The Arc of Human History. Please consider supporting our efforts at supporting independent research with a paid

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