Sep 20 ‘The Entrepreneurial State’: Apple Didn’t Build Your iPhone; Your Taxes Did Government support for research and development is responsible for much of the innovation that drives GDP, argues Mariana Mazzucato. Photo courtesy of Stephen Yang/Bloomberg via Getty Images. As the deadline for raising the government debt limit fast approaches, and wrangling… Continue reading
Jul 26 Technopessimism Is Bunk By Joel Mokyr In a 2011 Making Sen$e report, we explored the slowing of innovation with “The Great Stagnation” author Tyler Cowen. Editor’s Note: The developed world enjoys the benefits of running hot and cold water, refrigerators and electric stoves, all… Continue reading
Apr 20 Watch Tech’s Next Feats? Maybe On-Demand Kidneys, Robot Sex, Cheap Solar, Lab Meat Tech's Next Feats? Maybe On-Demand Kidneys, Robot Sex, Cheap Solar, Lab Meat… Continue watching
Dec 14 Watch Secretary Clinton: Democracies Must Have ‘Habits of the Heart’ On Wednesday, Secretary of State Clinton spoke with Jim Lehrer about how foreign policy decisions can tie into economic and job growth. Their discussion was part of the "Innovation and the Global Marketplace" symposium in Washington, hosted in partnership with… Continue watching
Oct 26 Watch Does U.S. Economic Inequality Have a Good Side? A new Congressional Budget Office analysis supports the idea that income inequality has grown considerably over the past few decades. As part of his Making Sen$e series on economic inequality, Paul Solman talks to libertarian law professor Richard Epstein, who… Continue watching
Aug 25 Watch What Will Happen to Innovation at Apple With Jobs Out as CEO? Apple announced Wednesday that CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs had stepped down from his helm, but will serve as chairman of the board. Ray Suarez discusses Jobs' lasting impact on innovation and what comes next for Apple and the tech… Continue watching
Jun 23 Is China’s Economic Progress in Trouble? By Elizabeth Shell Stephen Roach, of Morgan Stanley and now Yale and author of the book "The Next Asia," has long been among the most astute and independent of economic forecasters. He has also spent much of the past decade in the… Continue reading
May 20 Furry Robots, Foldable Cars and More Innovations from MIT’s Media Lab By Elizabeth Shell We recently visited the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for our story on George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen's ebook, "The Great Stagnation." Cowen argues that our economy is slowing down because the… Continue reading
May 20 Furry Robots, Foldable Cars and More Innovations from MIT’s Media Lab By Elizabeth Shell By Diane Lincoln-Estes and Elizabeth Shell We recently visited the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for our story on George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen's ebook, "The Great Stagnation." Cowen argues that our economy is… Continue reading
May 20 Furry Robots, Foldable Cars and More Innovations from MIT’s Media Lab We recently visited the Media Lab at MIT for our story on George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen's ebook, "The Great Stagnation." Cowen argues that the pace of innovation is stalling. We went to MIT for the counterargument. Here's a… Continue reading