# Eli Dourado

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#4 — ELI DOURADO (The CGO)

Eli Dourado (@elidourado) is an economist, researcher & writer. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University (@cgousu).  In this episode, we discussed TFP as the right measure of progress for society, regulatory hacking in practice, ene…

Is the Great Stagnation Over?

This week, economist Eli Dourado joins Noah Smith and Erik Torenberg to explore the concept of the Great Stagnation and whether it is over, the challenges of scaling in America, the role of governance in hindering progress, the role of new technology in productivity gains, and much more. If you’re …

The Economics of Space Travel

Are NASA contracts propping up the private space industry? Or are Government regulations stifling the private space race? Dr. Eli Dourado, Senior Research Fellow with the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University, joins Bob to discuss the recent "successful failure" of the explode…

Eli Dourado

Eli Dourado is the chief economist at the Abundance Institute and writes and thinks about how to increase the pace of American economic growth. Episode transcript -- Timestamps (0:00:00) Intro (0:00:43) Non-TFP econ metrics (0:04:59) Are ideas getting harder to find? (0:06:52) Economics as a…

Abundance and collapse, with Eli Dourado

A new movement is taking shape around the idea of restoring "abundance." Uniting thinkers from across the political spectrum -- including "supply-side progressives," "conservative futurists," and "state capacity libertarians" -- the movement aims to jump-start technological and economic progress by…

Existential Hope Podcast: Eli Dourado, Abundance Institute | Accelerating Progress

Eli Dourado is the Chief Economist at the Abundance Institute. He is a former Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and he has studied and written about a wide range of technology policy issues, including Internet governance, intellectual property, cybersecurity, …

💥 My chat (+transcript) with economist Eli Dourado on creating a fantastic future

Eli Dourado is on a mission to end the Great Stagnation, that half-century period of economic and technological disappointment that began in the 1970s (what I refer to in my 2023 book, The Conservative Futurist, as the Great Downshift). If we want to turn the page on this chapter of slow progress a…

Metascience 101 - EP8: "Invention vs. Diffusion"

IN THIS EPISODE: Journalist Derek Thompson and economist Eli Dourado investigate the bottlenecks standing in the way of the invention vs. the diffusion of ideas. They discuss whether new ideas are getting harder to find, how to get these new ideas to scale, and how a crisis can spur effective imple…