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In many ways enterprise in America has experienced consolidation and stagnation. What are the sources of stagnation and how can it be solved in different industries? How can future stagnation be avoided and growth unleashed? Prof. Epstein and Prof. Munger discuss these issues touching on: Anti-Trust, Lina Kahn’s FTC, NIMBYISM, Green Energy, EVs, The Military Industrial Complex & more. Themes here are also relevant for the AI regulation debate. Follow Pnyx Join waitlist: https://www.pnyx.io/waitlist?utm_source=spotify&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=epstein-munger_economy_1123 X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/the_pnyx Discussants Prof. Richard A. Epstein: https://twitter.com/RichardAEpstein Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University Law School, Senior Fellow Hoover Institution | Author The Classical Liberal Constitution, and others. Prof. Michael Munger: https://twitter.com/mungowitz Professor of Political Science, Economics, and Public Policy at Duke University | Author Choosing in Groups, The Thing Itself, and others. Thayne Kollmorgen: https://twitter.com/thaynekoll Co-Founder/Software Development at Pnyx Sources -How can we fix healthcare in the United States? - Civic Issues Blog: https://sites.psu.edu/alexci/2022/01/21/how-can-we-fix-healthcare-in-the-united-states/ -Is our healthcare system broken? - Robert H. Shmerling, MD: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-our-healthcare-system-broken-202107132542 -AMA vision for health system reform - American Medical Association (AMA): https://www.ama-assn.org/sites/ama-assn.org/files/corp/media-browser/public/about-ama/strategic-focus/AMA-next-steps-health-reform.pdf -What Americans still want from reform: An April 2021 update - Paul C. Light: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-americans-still-want-from-reform-an-april-2021-update/ -The six government reforms we need in 2021 - Paul C. Light: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-six-government-reforms-we-need-in-2021/ -Policies to Promote Economic Growth in the United States - John W. Diamond, George Zodrow: https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/policies-promote-economic-growth-united-states -10 Tax Reforms for Growth and Opportunity - Erica York, William McBride, Garrett Watson, Alex Muresianu, Alex Durante, Daniel Bunn: https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/economic-growth-opportunity-tax-reforms/#Business -Making it in America: Revitalizing US manufacturing - Sree Ramaswamy, James Manyika, Gary Pinkus, Katy George, Jonathan Law, Tony Gambell, Andrea Serafino: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/americas/making-it-in-america-revitalizing-us-manufacturing -In Chasing Amazon, the FTC Ignores Consumers - Richard A. Epstein: https://www.hoover.org/research/chasing-amazon-ftc-ignores-consumers -Why Austrian Economists Are Not Employed as Policy Advisers - Michael Munger: https://www.aier.org/article/why-austrian-economists-are-not-employed-as-policy-advisers/ -This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Directionalists vs. Destinationists - Michael Munger: https://www.aier.org/article/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-directionalists-vs-destinationists/ Original Music By Savfk https://www.youtube.com/savfkmusic https://www.facebook.com/savfkmusic
