Stephanie Flanders & Tyler Cowen , Voternomics

The United States of Inertia

08 Mar 2017 • 19 min • EN
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Americans like to think of themselves as great risk takers, rolling back frontiers and imbued since birth with a spirit of entrepreneurship. But what if the technological revolutions spawned in Silicon Valley were, ironically, symptoms of a risk-averse country? Underneath the latest app for sex or music, we are becoming older and more comfortable with stasis and statism, according to guest Tyler Cowen. Dan and Scott ask him why we've become more like Europe and poster children for sclerosis: France, Germany and Italy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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