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The Ezra Klein Show
Ezra noted that Cowen had written it as his most influential work, arguing that the U.S. faced a multidecade slowdown in productivity, a claim that still shaped their discussion.
Cowen wrote what is arguably his most influential book, The Great Stagnation, arguing that we were living through a multidecade slowdown in the pace of technological change.
— Episode: Tyler Cowen on the Great Stagnation’s En...
Episode: Tyler Cowen on the Great Stagnation’s End
Ezra noted that Cowen had written it as his most influential work, arguing that the U.S. faced a multidecade slowdown in productivity, a claim that still shaped their discussion.
Cowen wrote what is arguably his most influential book, The Great Stagnation, arguing that we were living through a multidecade slowdown in the pace of technological change.
Tell me the thesis of your 2011 book, The Great Stagnation. The Great Stagnation argued that the rate of productivity growth in the United States had declined since 1973.
What I said in 2011 in the book, The Great Stagnation, I still think is broadly correct that the turning point really was the internet.
