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For investment professionals only. Not for onward distribution. Issued by M&G Securities Limited and M&G International Investments Ltd. Both are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK. Please see Bondvigilantes.com for further information.
Professor Robert Gordon of North-Western University was in town this week to give speeches at Prospect Magazine (which is ace by the way) and the LSE. His latest book, “The Rise and Fall of American Growth” was released earlier this year, and is a tremendously powerful antidote to the wave of techno-optimism we might feel when we see shiny electric cars and gadgets coming out of Silicon Valley. Professor Gordon points out that mankind’s greatest period of technological innovation came between 1920 and 1970, and that since then it’s been a story of disappointment. As Peter Thiel put it, “we wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters”. Here’s my interview with him – after this and our previous interview with Martin Ford, pessimistic about technology for a different reason, we need cheering up.
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For investment professionals only. Not for onward distribution. Issued by M&G Securities Limited and M&G International Investments Ltd. Both are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK. Please see Bondvigilantes.com for further information.
Professor Robert Gordon of North-Western University was in town this week to give speeches at Prospect Magazine (which is ace by the way) and the LSE. His latest book, “The Rise and Fall of American Growth” was released earlier this year, and is a tremendously powerful antidote to the wave of techno-optimism we might feel when we see shiny electric cars and gadgets coming out of Silicon Valley. Professor Gordon points out that mankind’s greatest period of technological innovation came between 1920 and 1970, and that since then it’s been a story of disappointment. As Peter Thiel put it, “we wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters”. Here’s my interview with him – after this and our previous interview with Martin Ford, pessimistic about technology for a different reason, we need cheering up.