The number one request: long term grants. Think 30-year guaranteed fellowships de-coupled from "output". Danger is in creating "monocultures" around one topic t

The number one request: long term grants. Think 30-year guaranteed fellowships de-coupled from "output". Danger is in creating "monocultures" around one topic that sucks the oxygen from any nascent innovation. There is a profound undercurrent seeking to alter the entire research model. The lion's share of funding has moved to proprietary research labs. And the model itself creates perverse incentives. It's the "Do we really need 200 fresh econ PhD's per year" scenario.