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The Hope Axis by Anna GátAvoiding Societal Collapse, Complexity, and the Path to AbundanceThis week on The Hope Axis, I’m happy to welcome back Eli Dourado. Eli has joined us before in Interintellect salons, and now he’s on the podcast to revisit some of the ideas we talked about in the past. He previously worked at the Abundance Institute and is now the Head of Strategic Investments at Astra. We talk about abundance, progress, and what it takes to help the world flourish a little bit more. Hope you enjoy.For the full transcript of our conversation, click here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mO1maYYI0KzoR-lrjkhB9w9IZ...
2026-02-181h 06
The GeneralistReviving Forgotten Technologies: How Airships, Supersonic Flight, and Geothermal Energy Could Transform Our World (Eli Dourado, Head of Strategic Investments at Astera Institute)Eli Dourado is Head of Strategic Investments at Astera Institute, a foundation funding transformative science and technology across energy, aerospace, AI, and other frontier sectors. Before joining Astera, he worked as a "regulatory hacker" at Boom Supersonic, where he helped navigate complex aviation regulations to make supersonic flight viable again.In our conversation, we explore:• How Eli's refusal to be pigeonholed led to a career reviving forgotten technologies• How lifting the 1973 ban on supersonic flight could reshape aviation, after decades of stagnation and regression• Why airships need to be massive to be eco...
2025-08-191h 11
What is The Future for Cities?349R_Superabundant energy – What will we do with it? (research summary)Are you interested in the effects of superabundant energy? Summary of the article titled Superabundant energy – What will we do with it? from 2022, by Austin Vernon and Eli Dourado.This is a great preparation to episode 350 with Alan Pears, Adam Dorr, Ramez Naam and Mark Nelson about the urban energy matrix.Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see the potential effects of superabundant energy on cities. This article challenges the current focus on energy efficiency, advocating for a shift towards energy abundance to drive economic growth...
2025-08-1211 min
Not Boring RadioCrossing the Cringe Minefield with Cate Hall (Hyperlegible 010)Cate Hall is the CEO of Astera, one of my favorite organizations and the new home of my friend Eli Dourado, and one hell of a writer.If you've noticed the word "agency" popping up all over the place, you have Cate to thank. Her 2024 essay, How to be More Agentic took the internet by storm and brought agency into the zeitgeist, where it has remained and grown. Now, she's even writing the Book on Agency, which you can pre-order here.On the first episode of Hyperlegible with Tina He, when I asked who people should r...
2025-06-0241 min
City Journal AudioInvesting in AbundanceEli Dourado joins Jordan McGillis to discuss economic productivity and areas such as space and energy, where innovation can thrive.
2024-12-0528 min
City Journal AudioInvesting in AbundanceEli Dourado joins Jordan McGillis to discuss economic productivity and areas such as space and energy, where innovation can thrive.
2024-12-0528 min
The Macroscience PodcastMetascience 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 implementation.“Metascience 101” is a nine-episode set of interviews that doubles as a crash course in the debates, issues, and ideas driving the modern metascience movement. We investigate why building a genuine “science of science” matters, and how research in metascience is translating into real-world policy changes. Chapter...
2024-10-2938 min
Faster, Please! — The Podcast💥 My chat (+transcript) with economist Eli Dourado on creating a fantastic futureEli 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 and deserved skepticism, we’re going to have to accept some creative destruction.Dourado believes that the courage to embrace major change is key to meeting our potential. Today on Faster, Please! — The Podcast, I talk with Dourado about the future of the US job market and...
2024-10-1038 min
Foresight Institute RadioExistential Hope Podcast: Eli Dourado, Abundance Institute | Accelerating ProgressEli 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, and cryptocurrency.Session SummaryThis episode covers topics including Dourado’s efforts to accelerate economic growth in the U.S., his views on policy reforms in key sectors such as health, housing, energy, and transportation, and the challenges of regulatory complacency. We also explore the potential of new technologies such...
2024-09-2453 min
The Permanent ProblemAbundance and collapse, with Eli DouradoA 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 removing artificial constraints on supply and improving the quality of government. On this episode of The Permanent Problem podcast, Brink Lindsey interviews a leading analyst and advocate of abundance: Eli Dourado, chief economist at the new Abundance Institute and an expert on policy barriers to the emergence of new technologies. Discussing the "great stagnation" in productivity growth, Lindsey and Do...
2024-07-161h 01
UndertoneEli DouradoEli Dourado is the chief economist at the Abundance Institute and writes and thinks about how to increase the pace of American economic growth.
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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 field
(0:10:43) Tyler Cowen’s influence
(0:13:00) Culture and economic growth
(0:16:13) Uniqueness of the United States
(0:19:43) Education
(0:23:54) Revisiting “notes on technology”
(0:37:28) Investing in hard-tech
(0:44:30) Government’s role in tech
(0:49:22) Talent
(0:54:34) NEPA
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2024-06-061h 12
The Overton Window‘If we got to Mach 3, 4, 5…then trillions of dollars could get unlocked’Eli Dourado on the hard problems facing hard technology
2024-05-2400 min
"Econ 102" with Noah Smith and Erik TorenbergIs 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 looking for an ERP platform head to NetSuite http://netsuite.com/102 and download your own customized KPI checklist.-RECOMMENDED PODCAST: History 102 with WhatifAltHistEvery week, creator of WhatifAltHist Rudyard Lynch and Erik Torenberg cover a major topic in hi...
2024-01-3155 min
THE SPLINTER#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, energy superabundance, state capacity in the modern era, and the importance of culture in avoiding a zero-sum future.
2024-01-0255 min
The New Zealand InitiativeMassive energy potential of deep geothermalAndreas Heuser, Managing Director with Castalia, joins Dr Eric Crampton on the podcast to talk about the massive energy potential of deep geothermal.
They discuss what supercritical geothermal is, climate policy and the need for fast-tracking consenting processes.
Related material:
• Castalia's report "Supercritical Geothermal in New Zealand": https://www.geothermalnextgeneration.com/knowledge/supercritical-nz-economic-opportunity
• Eric's Newsroom piece: https://www.nzinitiative.org.nz/drilling-down-into-limitless-clean-energy/
• Eli Dourado "The state of next-generation geothermal energy": https://www.elidourado.com/p/geothermal
• Quaise, a US startup testing deep-drilling technology: https://www.quaise.energy/
• Tom Ough on geothermal: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/watt-lies-beneath/
www.nzinitiative.org.nz
2023-12-0626 min
"Age of Miracles"The Case For All the Other Energy SourcesPacky and Julia have spent the first five episodes of Age of Miracles diving into the past and present of nuclear fission—before jumping from the yin to the yang and covering nuclear fusion in the second half of this season, today we wanted to take a step back and talk about all the non-nuclear energy sources out there.We ask this icebreaker question to every guest we bring onto the show: "What does the pie chart of energy sources look like in the US in the year 2050?" From advocating for the widely accused fossil fuels like oi...
2023-12-011h 53
Titans Of Nuclear | Interviewing World Experts on Nuclear EnergyEp 419: Eli Dourado - Senior Research Fellow, The Center for Growth and Opportunity1) Eli’s international upbringing and how it came to influence his interests and career 2) A deep dive into supersonic airplanes, international standards, and startups 3) How The Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University came to be and what the focuses are 4) An exploration of the potential great stagnation, demonstrating leadership through innovation, and influence
2023-10-061h 05
Smart FriendsWorld-Changing Potential of Next-Gen Batteries with Eli Dourado and Ethan Loosbrock (Ouros Energy)Links:Center for Growth and OpportunityWhere’s my Flying Car by J. Storrs HallEli on TwitterEli’s SubstackEthan on TwitterOuros EnergyEpisode #32 of Smart Friends: book recap of Where’s My Flying Car?Episode #34 of Smart Friends w/ J. Storrs HallEpisode #58 of Smart Friends w/ Brett KugelmassTimestamps:(00:04:09) Eli Dourado & Ethan Loosbrock’s backgrounds(00:05:53) Impact of Next-Gen Batteries on the future: Flying Cars, EVTOL Jets, Electric Vehicles...
2023-07-1152 minPrivate PropertyThe Economics of Space TravelAre 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 exploded SpaceX launch and the differences between government and privately funded space travel.
Dr. Dourado on NASA contracting private companies to build their shuttles: Mises.org/HAP393a
Dr. Dourado on the Artemis moon program: Mises.org/HAP393b
2023-04-2800 min
The Human Action PodcastThe Economics of Space TravelAre 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 exploded SpaceX launch and the differences between government and privately funded space travel.
Dr. Dourado on NASA contracting private companies to build their shuttles: Mises.org/HAP393a
Dr. Dourado on the Artemis moon program: Mises.org/HAP393b
2023-04-2800 min
Stranded Technologies PodcastEp. 44: Allison Duettman on The Foresight Institute's Mission To Charter the Frontiers of Technology (e.g. Nanotechnology, Longevity & AI) and Why Hope Should Guide Our ThinkingAllison Duettmann is the iconic President of The Foresight Institute, the world's premier futurist think tank enabling science & entrepreneurship at the frontiers of technology.The conversation starts with Foresight's mission and strategy to avoid hype cycles - focusing on what's next, not current.The focus areas have particular learning and development trees:Intelligent Cooperation (Economics, Crypto, Incentive Design)Molecular Machines (Programmable Nanotechnology)Neurotechnology (incl. Brain Emulation)Longevity BiotechnologySpace ExplorationExistential HopeWe'll explore Foresight's history and Allison's own thinking, why...
2023-04-111h 10
The Great AntidoteEli Dourado on Energy AbundanceSend us a textEli Dourado, a senior research fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University, talks to us today about energy abundance. We discuss at the most basic level what energy is and why it is significant to human life, making the clear case that we should aim for energy abundance. He responds to climate change worries and explains the regulatory barriers in the way of that future, and what that future would bring. Support the showNever miss another AdamSmithWorks update.Follow us on F...
2023-03-2442 min
Narratives137: Eli Dourado - LLMs, Stagnation, and AlignmentIn this episode, we're joined by Eli Dourado to discuss his recent article Heretical thoughts on AI. How LLMs will interact with the culture war, how alignment can make the great stagnation worse, and a whole lot more. Transcript:William Jarvis 0:05 Hey folks, welcome to narratives. narratives is a podcast exploring the ways in which the world is better than in the past, the ways that is worse in the past towards a better, more definite vision of the future. I'm your host, William Jarvis. And I want to thank you for taking the time o...
2023-02-2722 min
Stranded Technologies PodcastEp. 37: Solar Geoengineering with Stratospheric Clouds, the World's Thermostat to Master Climate and Why Science Needs A Bias to Action w/ Make Sunsets CEO Luke Iseman & Eli DouradoDoes this sound straight out of a science-fiction novel? That's because it is.In "Termination Shock", Neil Stephenson described a near-future earth where climate change has significantly altered human society and follows the attempts of a businessman using solar geoengineering to cool the planet.Luke Iseman, a hardware entrepreneur and solarpunk, read the book and dug into Stephenson's research on solar geoengineering.To his amazement, he found that it was possible and nobody is trying it out!Luke founded make sunsets to experiment with balloons sending sulfur dioxide particles that reflect...
2023-02-211h 02
Good Clean EnergyAbundant energy changes everything, with Eli DouradoThis week on Good Clean Energy, we speak to Eli Dourado, an economist and a senior research fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University who believes that “energy superabundance” — access to an unlimited supply of cheap, clean energy— will drive dramatic increases in economic growth, improve human well-being and unlock solutions to many of the world’s biggest challenges Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-01-2532 min
Good Clean EnergyWhat if we use a lot more energy? Featuring economist Eli DouradoEli Dourado is an economist and a senior research fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University who believes that “energy superabundance” — access to an unlimited supply of cheap, clean energy— will drive dramatic increases in economic growth, improve human well-being and unlock solutions to many of the world’s biggest challenges. For a full transcript, head to the episode pageListen and Follow 'Good Clean Energy' on Apple Podcasts Listen and Follow 'Good Clean Energy' on Spotify Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-01-2532 min
ChinaTalkNuclear Fusion: Why We Can't Have Nice ThingsToday US Department of Energy Secretary Granholm announced a nuclear fusion breakthrough at Livermore Labs. However, this doesn’t necessarily mean we’re going to be getting commercially viable fusion reactors anytime soon.Economist Eli Dourado wrote in a piece today: “Nuclear fusion has long been hailed as the next great energy source, capable of providing nearly limitless power without the harmful emissions and waste associated with other forms of energy generation. This week, the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced that it had achieved “ignition,” which occurs when the energy output from plasma in a fusion...
2022-12-141h 09ChinaTalkNuclear Fusion: Why We Can't Have Nice ThingsToday US Department of Energy Secretary Granholm announced a nuclear fusion breakthrough at Livermore Labs. However, this doesn’t necessarily mean we’re going to be getting commercially viable fusion reactors anytime soon.Economist Eli Dourado wrote in a piece today: “Nuclear fusion has long been hailed as the next great energy source, capable of providing nearly limitless power without the harmful emissions and waste associated with other forms of energy generation. This week, the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced that it had achieved “ignition,” which occurs when the energy output from plasma in a fusion...
2022-12-141h 09
Stranded Technologies PodcastEp. 27: Eli Dourado on Supersonic Jet Flight, Energy & Climate Innovation and Regulatory HackingNiklas speaks with Eli Dourado, a senior research fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University.Eli is also a blogger, investor, and self-described "regulatory hacker".Eli and Niklas have a conversation about many things technology, innovation, and regulatory bottlenecks. His breadth of knowledge includes aviation, energy, housing, cryptocurrency, biotech, cybersecurity, and many more areas.Eli has a background in regulatory and technology policy. He was involved in initiatives such as saving the internet from UN regulation and the debate about noise limits in civil aviation, in his role...
2022-12-131h 05
Plain English with Derek ThompsonChatGPT, Obesity Drugs, Exoplanet Images, and Medical Miracles: The Most Amazing Breakthroughs of 2022Derek talks to economist and writer Eli Dourado about the most exciting scientific and technological discoveries of the year, from the AI toys that everybody seems to be playing with to lesser-known breakthroughs in bioscience, clean energy hardware, and precise atomic manipulation.Due to the holidays, we will be skipping our Friday episode this week. However, we’ll be back next Tuesday to revisit one of our favorite interviews from the past year as we inch closer to 2023.Host: Derek ThompsonGuest: Eli DouradoProducer: Devon Manze Le...
2022-12-1358 min
Anita no TrabalhoEpisódio #16 Temporada 7: A Anita em conversa freestyleCiente do compromisso que assumiu (na verdade, auto-imposto num qualquer momento de devaneio em que se questionou sobre se estaria a acomodar-se demasiado), a Anita abre novamente as portas a uma conversa de bastidores. Sem mapa e sem destino, ao gosto da coligação Billy-Constança, e com a Eli literalmente na estrada, este é mais uma viagem ao admirável mundo das questões “pratico-existenciais” da Anita.
Todos a bordo? Aí vamos nós!
Neste episódio mencionamos:
Workshop que a Constança vai dar com a sua amiga Rocío
Workshops que a Billy vai dar...
2022-11-1045 minPodcast Archives - Anita no TrabalhoEpisódio #16 Temporada 7: A Anita em conversa freestyle
Ciente do compromisso que assumiu (na verdade, auto-imposto num qualquer momento de devaneio em que se questionou sobre se estaria a acomodar-se demasiado), a Anita abre novamente as portas a uma conversa de bastidores. Sem mapa e sem destino, ao gosto da coligação Billy-Constança, e com a Eli literalmente na estrada, este é mais uma viagem ao admirável mundo das questões “pratico-existenciais” da Anita.
Todos a bordo? Aí vamos nós!
Neste episódio mencionamos:
Workshop que a Constança vai dar com a sua amiga Rocío
Workshops que a Billy vai dar...
2022-11-1045 min
ANOMALYEli Dourado and Austin Vernon on Energy Superabundance and Creating a Prosperous 21st CenturyEli Dourado (@elidourado) and Austin Vernon (@vernon3austin) join Patrick Blumenthal (@patrickjblum) to discuss their recent paper, Energy Superabundance: How Cheap, Abundant Energy Will Shape Our Future. Other topics discussed:- How Energy Superabundance can Lead us from a Carbon Surplus to a Carbon Shortage- How did a Scarcity Mindset Take Root in America?- The Policies that we Need for a Prosperous Century- The Future of Nuclear Energy- Building More Rather than Less to Solve Climate Change - Will China Reach Superabundance Before America? - How we can...
2022-10-1849 min
People are the AnswerS4E5 (episode 35): Eli Dourado on increasing innovation and economic growthIn this episode, Eli and Jeffrey discuss Eli’s life and career journey, and his massive efforts and impact in internet, energy, and aerospace policies, among other sectors.
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Website - https://elidourado.com/
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2022-08-311h 04
The Deep End by ODFEmbracing Hard Tech with Eli DouradoThis week's guest is Eli Dourado, an economist who says that all he wants is for GDP per capita to reach $200k in 2050. Marshall's conversation with Eli today centers around how to get economic growth back on track after the Great Stagnation, which was a slowdown of total factor productivity growth from 2% annually in the post WW2 period to .3% by 2005. We discuss the causes of economic stagnation and the way to get to faster growth, including genuine hard tech advances like the MRNA vaccines or faster air travel. We also talk about why institutional and re...
2022-05-0244 min
Podcasts by RolinsDécimo Quinto Paredão do BBB 22 - Jessi, Eli, Arthur e Douglas - Resumo e Nutellas de 30 anosMais um Paredão, exatamente o décimo quinto, e dessa vez quádruplo, na berlinda estão Jessi, Eliezer, Arthur e Douglas, estando na reta final, fica cada vez mais difícil escolher quem indicar ou votar lá dentro da casa, principalmente para os meninos do quarto Grunge, que já tiveram que se votar entre si. E quem não gostou nada de ser o escolhido do grupo para ser representante nessa disputa, foi Arthuzito, pãozinho do Brasil e porque não dizer, alecrim dourado dessa edição, pois o rapaz não gosta nada de ser indicado, lembrado...
2022-04-1618 minPlain English with Derek ThompsonThe Biggest Inventions of the 2020s: Cancer Vaccines, Flying Cars, Space Travel, and MoreLet’s kick off the new year with a bit of techno-optimism! After a miserable start to this decade, we can still have a Roaring Twenties. In this episode, ‘Plain English’ presents a tour of the frontier of science and technology with Derek’s favorite innovation writer, the economist Eli Dourado.Host: Derek ThompsonGuest: Eli DouradoProducer: Devon Manze Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2022-01-0754 min
Cato PodcastA Policy Lesson from Elon MuskGetting policy right means engaging in the right steps in the right order. Eli Dourado of the Center for Growth and Opportunity details a lesson for policymakers from a manufacturing titan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2021-11-1709 minCato PodcastA Policy Lesson from Elon MuskGetting policy right means engaging in the right steps in the right order. Eli Dourado of the Center for Growth and Opportunity details a lesson for policymakers from a manufacturing titan. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2021-11-1709 min
Charter Cities PodcastShaping a Preferable Economic Future with Eli DouradoAs we step into a new decade, it’s a good time to reflect on our expectations for the next 10 years. There are a wide variety of possible futures, some of them more plausible than others, but how do we shape a preferable future? Today’s guest believes that technological advancements could result in what he calls the ‘Roaring 20s’, with a productivity and economic boom that extends well beyond the expected post-pandemic rebound. Eli Dourado is an economist and regulatory hacker living in Washington, DC, and a senior research fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah Sta...
2021-08-0952 min
Idea MachinesPolicy, TFP, and airshiPs with Eli DouradoEli Dourado on how the sausage of technology policy is made, the relationship between total factor productivity and technological progress, airships, and more. Eli is an economist, regulatory hacker, and a senior research fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University. In the past, he was the head of global policy at Boom Supersonic where he navigated the thicket of regulations on supersonic flight. Before that, he directed the technology policy program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.. Eli's Website Eli on Twitter Transcript audio...
2021-07-271h 06
The IQT PodcastThe Intersection: Technology, Economic Growth, & National SecurityThis week on The Intersection, IQT's Steve Bowsher talks with Eli Dourado, a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University, about the future of cutting-edge bio, energy, and space technologies and their commercial and national security implications.
2021-07-1938 min
ExformationSpace, the Final Frontier, with Eli DouradoIn today's Exformation episode, Will and Caden invite special guest Eli Dourado, Senior Research Fellow at the CGO, to discuss the future of Space exploration, commercialization, and NASA.
2021-07-1343 min
Bretton GoodsEp 4: Eli Dourado on think tanks, the Great Stagnation and regulationWe talk about
- Do think tanks actually have an impact?
- Should we loosen accredited investor regulations?
- Should more companies invest in public policy roles?
- What would he do if he could remake American federal regulation?
You can read Eli's writing at https://elidourado.com/
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2021-07-0553 min
LaBossiere Podcast#10 - Eli DouradoOn the great stagnation, transformational technologies, and the future of crypto with Eli Dourado.
2021-06-1128 min
City Journal AudioBleeding EdgeEli Dourado, a senior research fellow at Utah State University, joins Brian Anderson to debunk myths about the great stagnation, discuss new technologies that are on the precipice of unleashing growth, and detail the regulatory strictures and complacency that stand in their way.
2021-05-1922 min
City Journal AudioBleeding EdgeEli Dourado, a senior research fellow at Utah State University, joins Brian Anderson to debunk myths about the great stagnation, discuss new technologies that are on the precipice of unleashing growth, and detail the regulatory strictures and complacency that stand in their way.
2021-05-1922 min
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'ShaughnessyEli Dourado - Frontiers for ProductivityMy guest today is Eli Dourado, economist and senior research fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University. In our discussion, we touch on the ongoing stagnation in labor productivity, the system constraints, and some of the innovative technologies that could reverse this trend. While Eli identifies as an economist, his wealth of knowledge on biotech innovation, alternative energy, and the space opportunity are sure to leave you craving more. I hope you enjoy my conversation with Eli. For the full show notes, transcript, and links to mentioned content, check out th...
2021-05-1158 min
ericmckay4 's Listen Later28. The Next Ten Years of Tech with Eli Dourado Podcast: The Convergence - The Army's Mad Scientist Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: 28. The Next Ten Years of Tech with Eli DouradoPub date: 2021-02-04Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationEli Dourado is a senior research fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity (CGO) at Utah State University. He focuses on the hard technology and innovation needed to drive large increases in economic growth — speeding up infrastructure deployment, eliminating barriers to entrepreneurs operating in the physical world, and getting the most...
2021-04-2140 min
ericmckay4 's Listen LaterThe 2020s, Economic Growth, and Deep Tech with Eli Dourado Podcast: Village Global Podcast (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: The 2020s, Economic Growth, and Deep Tech with Eli DouradoPub date: 2021-03-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationEli Dourado (@elidourado) of the Center for Growth and Opportunity, joins Erik on this episode to discuss:- Why Eli wants to radically increase GDP per capita and the current bottlenecks to achieving that.- Why he thinks the 2020s will be the decade of atoms.- Why amazing scientific bre...
2021-04-0253 min
Narratives35: Stagnation, Regulation and The Future with Eli DouradoThis week, we got to chat with Eli Dourado about stagnation, regulation and the Future. You can check out Eli's work at www.elidourado.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit willjarvis.substack.com
2021-03-2954 min
Village Global PodcastThe 2020s, Economic Growth, and Deep Tech with Eli DouradoEli Dourado (@elidourado) of the Center for Growth and Opportunity, joins Erik on this episode to discuss:- Why Eli wants to radically increase GDP per capita and the current bottlenecks to achieving that.- Why he thinks the 2020s will be the decade of atoms.- Why amazing scientific breakthroughs like CRISPR haven't translated into new products or treatments.- Why he's excited about geothermal power and how it could change geopolitics if its potential is realized.- His breakdown of his position as a technological optimist and cultural...
2021-03-2353 min
The Convergence - The Army's Mad Scientist Podcast28. The Next Ten Years of Tech with Eli DouradoEli Dourado is a senior research fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity (CGO) at Utah State University. He focuses on the hard technology and innovation needed to drive large increases in economic growth — speeding up infrastructure deployment, eliminating barriers to entrepreneurs operating in the physical world, and getting the most out of federal technology research programs. He has worked on a wide range of technology policy issues, including aviation, Internet governance, and cryptocurrency. His popular writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Foreign Policy, among other outlets.
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2021-02-0440 min
The Times Tech PodcastEconomist Eli Dourado: "City lights on the moon and living past 130"The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Eric Goldman, law professor at Santa Clara University, to talk about what tech regulation will look like under Joe Biden (4:00), Congressional gridlock (7:00), the importance of Section 230 (8:15), social media’s Lehman Brothers moment (10:25), cable news’ central role in disinformation (12:40), what he would do as tech czar (14:05), and the effectiveness of labelling posts (17:05). THEN: Utah State economist Eli Dourado comes on to talk about the biggest tech innovations of the next decade, like life extension (18:45), being a different kind of economist (24:00), the prize of increasing healthspan (26:10), turning back the clock (27:45), the Apple Watch r...
2021-01-2258 min
Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal HafeezEli Dourado on the Key Tech Breakthroughs For the 2020sEli is an economist and regulatory hacker living in Washington, DC, and a senior research fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University. Before that he was head of global policy at Boon supersonic. In this podcast, we discuss: Why we haven't a replacement for Concorde (yet) How vaccine/mRNA breakthrough can help with HIV and cancers Anti-ageing and blood plasma transfer The problem of energy storage and renewables Breakthroughs in geothermal energy The future of transportation SpaceX Starship could open a new frontier in space travel Minitiarisation of chips and circuits and 'escaping...
2021-01-1543 min
POD OF JAKE#24 - ELI DOURADOEli is an economist, regulatory hacker, and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University. Before joining CGO, he spent a couple of years as the Head of Global Policy at Boom, a company building supersonic passenger airplanes. Eli previously served as a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and Director of its Technology Policy Program. He earned a PhD in Economics from George Mason University. Eli built an election tracker for the 2020 US Presidential Election which can be seen along with some of his writing, research, and cod...
2020-11-191h 02The Great AntidoteEli Dourado on Technology and StagnationSend us a textEli Dourado, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University, joins us to discuss economic stagnation, technology, and innovation. Support the showNever miss another AdamSmithWorks update.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
2020-11-0549 min
AEI Podcast ChannelEli Dourado: How to make America innovate again (Political Economy)Eli Dourado explores why Americans became less future-oriented over the past several decades and suggests ways that the US can begin to re-prioritize innovation going forward.
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2020-06-0127 min
Political Economy with Jim PethokoukisEli Dourado: How to make America innovate againEli Dourado explores why Americans became less future-oriented over the past several decades and suggests ways that the US can begin to re-prioritize innovation going forward.
The post Eli Dourado: How to make America innovate again appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.
2020-05-2027 min
Two Think MinimumBrent Skorup and Eli Dourado on Airspace Auctions and Supersonic AviationBrent Skorup is a lawyer and Senior Research Fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His research areas include telecommunications, transportation, technology regulation, and wireless policy. He serves on the FCC’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee and is the Vice Chair of the Competitive Access subcommittee. He has authored pieces in a wide variety of outlets and has appeared on different news outlets as well. Eli Dourado is an economist and recently served as Head of Global Policy and Communications at Boom Supersonic, and before that, as a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason Un...
2020-01-1336 min
Two Think MinimumBrent Skorup and Eli Dourado on Airspace Auctions and Supersonic AviationBrent Skorup is a lawyer and Senior Research Fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His research areas include telecommunications, transportation, technology regulation, and wireless policy. He serves on the FCC’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee and is the Vice Chair of the Competitive Access subcommittee. He has authored pieces in a wide variety of outlets and has appeared on different news outlets as well. Eli Dourado is an economist and recently served as Head of Global Policy and Communications at Boom Supersonic, and before that, as a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason Un...
2020-01-1336 min
AloudThe dawn of the age of geoengineeringEli Dourado | August 2019 | Original SourceBlog post by economist and regulatory hacker Eli Dourado about realistic paths towards implementing large-scale geoengineering projects that could help save the environment. (24 minutes) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aloud.substack.com
2019-11-2424 min
The Economics DetectiveSupersonic Flight, Technology, and the Overland Ban with Sam Hammond
What follows is an edited transcript of my conversation with Sam Hammond.
Petersen: My guest today is Sam Hammond. He’s a policy analyst at the Niskanen Center. Sam, welcome to Economics Detective Radio.
Hammond: Hi!
Petersen: Our topic today is supersonic air travel.
Sam has written an article titled “Make America Boom Again” along with co-author Eli Dourado which revisits the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s ban on supersonic flight over the United States. So Sam let’s start at the very start. Let’s start by talking abou...
2016-11-2500 min
Economics Detective RadioSupersonic Flight, Technology, and the Overland Ban with Sam HammondWhat follows is an edited transcript of my conversation with Sam Hammond. Petersen: My guest today is Sam Hammond. He's a policy analyst at the Niskanen Center. Sam, welcome to Economics Detective Radio. Hammond: Hi! Petersen: Our topic today is supersonic air travel. Sam has written an article titled "Make America Boom Again" along with co-author Eli Dourado which revisits the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's ban on supersonic flight over the United States. So Sam let's start at the very start. Let's start by talking about the history of flight...
2016-11-2551 min
Tech Policy Podcast#139: Make America Boom AgainSince 1973, supersonic flight over land has been illegal in the US. In those days, supersonic planes were loud, gas-guzzling, and inefficient beasts, propped up by government subsidies. Today, however, new technologies have made supersonic flights quieter, more efficient, and more affordable. Is it time to lift the ban? How should supersonic flight be regulated? What role will NIMBYism play in the debate? Eli Dourado, Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center, joins the show. For more, see his report here.
2016-11-1024 min
The a16z Showa16z Podcast: Airspace as the Next Internet-Like PlatformOne of the most important lessons of the internet age is what happens when we give people -- including companies, developers, engineers, hobbyists, and yes, even a few bad (or dumb) actors -- a new platform, along with the freedom to innovate on top of it. For example, who could have predicted how profoundly the internet would change our economy, given how it started off as a research project -- one where commercial applications were actually frowned upon in the early days?
Now, the U.S. is on the cusp of opening up another such platform for...
2016-05-1940 min
Tech Policy Podcast#75: War on Drug PhonesHas the War on Drugs become a war on phones? The Apple v. FBI saga made encryption a household issue, but while that case focused on counter-terrorism, the vast majority of law enforcement confrontations with the tech sector deal with drug investigations. Is the “going dark” problem really an issue of national security? Or is law enforcement just trying to solve more drug crimes by getting into locked phones? Evan and Eli Dourado, director of the Mercatus Center’s Technology Policy Program, discuss how the War on Drugs fuels efforts to undermine encryption and cybersecurity. For more, see Eli’s post i...
2016-05-0520 min
Tech Policy Podcast#43: Drone SafetyDo toy drones endanger the national airspace? The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) seems to think so. Right before Christmas, the FAA rushed through rules requiring basically every kid who got a drone from Santa to register with the agency for $5. Will a government database of drone users actually make us safer? Is the agency just buying time to figure out what to do about drones? Evan is joined by Eli Dourado, Director of Technology Policy at the Mercatus Center, a research center based at George Mason University. They discuss drone safety and the FAA’s approach. Is there really mu...
2016-03-1520 min
Let's Talk Bitcoin!LTB E248 - It Ain't the Heat, It's the Humility##On Todays Show * [**Adam**](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/adam) sits down with [Eli Dourado](https://twitter.com/elidourado) to talk about Forks, Governance and what our future might hold. --- ###Subscribe to the [**LTBn All Podcasts feed**](http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheDailyBitcoinShow) or the [**Let's Talk Bitcoin! show only feed**](http://feeds.feedburner.com/ltb/ltb) and never miss an episode again. --- #Sponsors: #**Tokenly** ---- ##Credits for Episode 248 Content for Todays episode was provided by Nick, Stephanie, Andreas and Adam This episode was edited by Adam B. Levine Music for todays show was provided by **[Jared Rubens](http...
2015-09-1938 min