Research on the long-run determinants of civilizational progressEconomic growth
What factors were the root cause of the industrial revolution? Why did industrialization happen in the time and place and ways that it did? How have the key factors supporting economic growth changed over the last two centuries? Why do some developing countries manage to “catch up” to the first world, while others lag behind or get stuck in a “middle-income trap”? Is the pace of entrepreneurship or scientific innovation slowing down—and if so, what can we do about it? Is increasing amounts of “vetocracy” an inevitable disease that afflicts all stable and prosperous societies (as Holden Karnofsky argues here), or can we hope to change our culture or institutions to restore dynamism? At FTX, we’d be interested to fund research into these “progress studies” questions. We’re also interested in funding advocacy groups promoting potential policy reforms derived from the ideas of the progress studies movement.
See also many of Zac Townsend’s ideas, the idea of nuclear power & GMO advocacy, and my list of object-level planks in the progress-studies platform.
Research on the long-run determinants of civilizational progress
Economic growth
What factors were the root cause of the industrial revolution? Why did industrialization happen in the time and place and ways that it did? How have the key factors supporting economic growth changed over the last two centuries? Why do some developing countries manage to “catch up” to the first world, while others lag behind or get stuck in a “middle-income trap”? Is the pace of entrepreneurship or scientific innovation slowing down—and if so, what can we do about it? Is increasing amounts of “vetocracy” an inevitable disease that afflicts all stable and prosperous societies (as Holden Karnofsky argues here), or can we hope to change our culture or institutions to restore dynamism? At FTX, we’d be interested to fund research into these “progress studies” questions. We’re also interested in funding advocacy groups promoting potential policy reforms derived from the ideas of the progress studies movement.
See also many of Zac Townsend’s ideas, the idea of nuclear power & GMO advocacy, and my list of object-level planks in the progress-studies platform.