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🤔 American capitalism and 'deaths of despair,' again
Such deep pessimism about the US economy is unwarranted
Oct 2
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James Pethokoukis
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September 2023
🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #63
Please check out some great highlights from my essays and interviews!
Sep 30
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🏭 Do you want to build a factory?
Environmental regulations make it harder than it should be, even for the clean energy sector
Sep 29
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James Pethokoukis
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🌎 My chat (+transcript) with political scientist Francis Fukuyama on technological change and liberal democracy. Some sci-fi, too!
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Sep 28
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🌎 My chat (+transcript) with political scientist Francis Fukuyama on technological change and liberal democracy. Some sci-fi, too!
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☀ The most important pro-progress event of the year (so far) was a tech failure. But that's OK.
The LK-99 superconductor boomlet gave us an aspirational glimpse of a fantastic future
Sep 27
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James Pethokoukis
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💡 5 Quick Questions for … policy analyst Alex Trembath on the notion of 'Earth overshoot'
'It is not sound. Bottomless nonsense is, I think, the most generous way to put it.'
Sep 26
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James Pethokoukis
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💡 5 Quick Questions for … policy analyst Alex Trembath on the notion of 'Earth overshoot'
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⤴ Could AI really generate explosive economic growth?
A new study estimates explosive AI-driven growth this century "about as likely as not." I'll take it!
Sep 25
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James Pethokoukis
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🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #62
Please check out some great highlights from my essays and interviews!
Sep 23
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James Pethokoukis
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👩🏫 America needs better, smarter teachers. GenAI can help.
Chatbots seem to reduce inequality through the upskilling of less-skilled workers. Let's hope they can work their magic in the classroom.
Sep 22
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James Pethokoukis
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👩🏫 America needs better, smarter teachers. GenAI can help.
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🌎 6 Down Wing myths about the American economy and the world
Economist Larry Summers just gave an enlightening speech about a host of economic misconceptions. And I am on it!
Sep 20
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James Pethokoukis
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💡 5 Quick Questions for … policy analyst Brink Lindsey on techno-optimistic socialism — and the new pro-abundance left
"In the broader center-left, meanwhile, I do believe that abundance thinking is making a genuine comeback."
Sep 19
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💡 5 Quick Questions for … policy analyst Brink Lindsey on techno-optimistic socialism — and the new pro-abundance left
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↕ How zero-sum thinking undermines American progress
It's a worldview that can lead one to reject many pro-progress and pro-growth ideas and policies
Sep 18
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James Pethokoukis
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