Economist Tyler Cowen talks of “strange kind of tech boom”.
American Enterprise Institute columnist James Pethokoukis published an conversation with economist and professor Tyler Cowen on “a very strange kind of technology boom” in healthcare and green energy improving human welfare without potentially affecting growth.
Cowen picks out breakthroughs tackling more viruses. Messenger RNA could deliver a potential vaccine for HIV/AIDS, while University of Oxford has followed its work on a covid-19 jab with one proving effective against malaria.
On “green energy” Cowen said “Again, you could be very optimistic…
