In 2011, the economist Tyler Cowen published The Great Stagnation, a short treatise with a provocative hypothesis. Cowen challenged his audience to look beyond the gleam of the internet and personal computing, arguing that these innovations masked a more troubling reality. Cowen contended that, since the 1970s, there has been a marked stagnation in critical…
What? It looks to me like the article is focusing almost exclusively on research, not on economic growth. There’s some stuff in the first two paragraphs about setting the economic context, and a passing mention much later of academic inequality seeming to produce a corresponding economic inequality, but as far as I can tell, the main thrust of his point is very much focused on the research side and independent from anything it means on the economic side. Where is he talking in any depth about economics?