Productiveness progress within the developed world has been on a downward development because the Nineteen Sixties. In the meantime, positive factors in life expectancy have additionally slowed. And but the variety of {dollars} and researchers devoted to R&D grows yearly. In at present’s episode, the FT’s Chief Knowledge Reporter, John Burn-Murdoch, asks whether or not western tradition has misplaced its earlier deal with human progress and develop into too risk-averse, or whether or not the issue is solely that the low-hanging fruit of scientific analysis has already been plucked. He does so in dialog with innovation economist Matt Clancy, who’s the creator of the New Issues Underneath the Solar weblog, and a analysis fellow at Open Philanthropy, a non-profit basis primarily based in San Francisco that gives analysis grants.
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