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16 August 2022 · Tyler Cowen (marginalrevolution.com)
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The debate around economic growth far into the future
How should we think about economic growth in the the very long term? And how do these considerations affect our actions now?
Dwarkesh Patel surveys one angle of that debate in this short post, and also here. More commonly, from EA types I increasingly hear the argument that if an economy grows at [fill in the blank] percent for so many thousands of years, at some point it becomes so massively large relative to the galaxy that […]
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https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/08/can-an-economy-grow-forever.html
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16 August 2022