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"GDP isn't flourishing" sounds plausible because there are real flaws in GDP Funny thing is that the flaws don't matter much! Everything important correlates ~0.89 to GDP The UN even invented a Human Development Index to "replace GDP" and it's still just...GDP in a trenchcoat

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Don’t make me tap the sign! economicforces.xyz/p/a-data-drive…

press.stripe.com/scaling And by soon I meant...now! Today Stripe Press is thrilled to publish The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, by the brilliant Dwarkesh Patel.

Next week the IEA have a series of lectures on the Economic Consequences of Automation and AI. David Autor, Pascual Restrepo and I are giving lectures over three days online. Register here. iea-world.org/automation-and…

The estimable Jennifer Pahlka and Zach Graves 🍞🎪 will co-chair Abundance 2025. mailchi.mp/7b6b4611ae14/c…]

New long post by me: The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smoking. Many factors — including improvements in diagnosis, medical and surgical innovation, vaccination against cancers — have had a very real impact. scientificdiscovery.dev/p/the-decline-…

🤖 AI ate the org chart. So… now what? At Uplift 2025, Adam Grant , Andrew McAfee 🇺🇦 , and BetterUp CEO Alexi Robichaux explored what it really means to lead in an AI-powered workplace. 👉 Find key takeaways on our post-Uplift content hub hubs.ly/Q03hfVb_0

Once again, the best and the brightest at our Planning Bureaus are confident that this time, they've figured out the set of relative prices and detailed sectoral production plans that will ensure that our needs will be met with even greater effectiveness and precision.

The The Wall Street Journal piece on SUPER AGERS, by Amy Dockser Marcus Gift link wsj.com/health/wellnes… And please join us next Tuesday for a live Q&A about this with the link below w/ Alex Janin

In my Energy and Commerce Committee testimony tomorrow, I argue: “Europe decimated its digital technology sector with over-regulation and now wants to hobble America’s with their innovation-killing policies.” I explain why Congress must stop the spread of that model. energycommerce.house.gov/calendars?star…

here's the link to the full The Wall Street Journal article on "The Tech Industry Is Huge—and Europe’s Share of It Is Very Small." Glad to see the important work of the great Andrew McAfee 🇺🇦 cited in here. wsj.com/tech/europe-bi…

For many years, we knew that 1-on-1 tutoring was the most powerful educational intervention you could do. But we couldn't scale it. Now, with AI, we finally can. Great things are ahead.

We're really excited to be research partners with DORA at Workhelix . The goal of the research program is to help technology teams "get better at getting better". We're looking at AI practices this time too.

AI is radically changing how devs do their work. We want to help spotlight what works really, really well as people learn to work with these new tools. The survey takes about 10 minutes. It might even help you get ideas for how to improve your team. link: google.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_40…

On moving to Substack

"Free speech makes you safer. Free speech cures violence. Free speech protects the powerless. And even 'bad' people can have good ideas." My talk from April at TED Talks 2025 in Vancouver is live!

Y’all, I wrote a book! The Science of Second Chances is based on my decades of work studying crime and criminal behavior, first as an economics professor and now as a policy expert at Arnold Ventures. It shares what we know from cutting-edge research about how to intervene at