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How to create the sci-fi world we were promised, with James Pethokoukis
“We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” Peter Thiel’s famous complaint hearkens back to the middle of the 20th century, when high economic growth seemed unstoppable and the future was filled with visions of moon bases, nuclear energy too cheap to meter, and yes flying cars. But in the 1970s, economic growth slowed down and the future suddenly darkened, now menaced by threats of overpopulation and runaway pollution. Except for a few brief years during the internet boom of the 1990s, the old dynamism and optimism have never returned.
In his new book The Conservative Futurist, American Enterprise Institute scholar James Pethokoukis investigates what he calls the “Great Downshift” of the past half-century — and surveys the hopeful evidence that a new burst of technological and economic innovation may be in the offing. Pethokoukis joins Brink Lindsey to discuss the book, review what’s gone wrong in both public policy and the broader culture, and explore (in the words of the book’s subtitle) “how to create the sci-fi world we were promised.”
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Brink Lindsey: Welcome to The Permanent Problem Podcast. I’m your host, Br
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James
Pethokoukis
James Pethokoukis is a columnist and economic policy analyst. He is the Dewitt Wallace Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he writes and edits the AEIdeas blog and hosts a weekly podcast, Political Economy with James Pethokoukis. He is a columnist for The Week and an official contributor to CNBC. He also authors the Faster, Please! newsletter on Substack.
Before joining AEI, Pethokoukiswas the Washington columnist for Reuters Breakingviews, the opinion and commentary wing of Thomson Reuters, and the business editor and economics columnist for US News & World Report.
Pethokoukis has written for many publications, including Commentary, Investor’s Business Daily, National Review, The New York Times, USA Today, Washington Examiner, and The Weekly Standard. His numerous broadcast appearances include CNN, Fox Business Network, Fox News Channel, The McLaughlin Group, MSNBC, and Nightly Business Report on PBS.
A graduate of Northwestern University and the Medill School of Journalism, Pethokoukis is a 2002 Jeopardy! champion.
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The Conservative Futurist
- How cause problems Create picture Sci-Fi Planet We Were Promised
- By: Book Pethokoukis
- Narrated by: Séan Marrinan
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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- By Book on 01-21-24