This is something Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO) has been talking about these past few years. Here’s an Atlantic article from Collison and Tyler Cowen called “We

This is something Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO) has been talking about these past few years. Here’s an Atlantic article from Collison and Tyler Cowen called “We Need a New Science of Progress” https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/we-need-new-science-progress/594946/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/we-need-... And an EconTalk episode on the same subject (which goes into more detail than the article) https://www.econtalk.org/patrick-collison-on-innovation-and-scientific-progress/ https://www.econtalk.org/patrick-collison-on-innovation-and-...