Big economic issues for the 2020s

<p>Use these timestamps to jump right into the episode:</p><ul><li>2:15 – Larry Summers’s secular stagnation hypothesis (see his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SDvexw9Dp4">Peterson Institute talk</a>);</li><li>4:10 – discussion of Tyler Cowen’s and Robert Gordon’s views (see Cowen’s lecture on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj_200ud6eA">Inequality, productivity stagnation and Moore’s Law</a> and check out Robert Gordon’s book <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691147727/the-rise-and-fall-of-american-growth">The Rise and Fall of American Growth</a>);</li><li>5:45 – On Stiglitz’s attack on Summers and secular stagnation (see Stiglitz’s article <a href="https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-myth-of-secular-stagnation">The myth of secular stagnation</a>);</li><li>7:30 – reference to “Dr Doom” Nouriel Roubini’s “perfect storm in 2020” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05kVaFnHXw0">interview from 2018</a>;</li><li>9:00 – discussion of Joshua Gans and Andrew Leigh’s new book <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/innovation-equality">Innovation + Equality</a>; </li><li>11:10 – reference to the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/Age-Surveillance-Capitalism-Future-Frontier/dp/1610395697">The Age of Surveillance Capitalism</a>;</li><li>13:30 – <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/9a3bb14c-2255-11ea-b8a1-584213ee7b2b">Financial Times editorial on GDPR</a>;</li><li>14:08 – <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/31/21039228/california-ccpa-facebook-microsoft-gdpr-privacy-law-consumer-data-regulation">Verge article on new California data privacy law</a>; and</li><li>15:27 – <a href="https://blogs.imf.org/2019/10/10/fiscal-policies-to-curb-climate-change/">IMF blog post on climate change</a>. </li></ul>