{"id":21743,"date":"2019-01-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=1b60bc3c3514803ffadb991deae400b8"},"modified":"2019-01-15T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T08:00:00","slug":"where-does-economic-growth-really-come-from-with-w-brian-arthur-and-cesar-hidalgo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/01\/15\/where-does-economic-growth-really-come-from-with-w-brian-arthur-and-cesar-hidalgo\/","title":{"rendered":"Where does economic growth really come from? (with W. Brian Arthur and Cesar Hidalgo)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <p>Is economic growth all about money, trade, and GDP, or are healthy economies built on a different foundation? In this episode, economist W. Brian Arthur and MIT physicist Cesar Hidalgo explain why human knowledge, knowhow, and innovation are the best measures of rising prosperity and future economic growth. <\/p><p><em>Guest Bios<\/p><p><\/em>W. Brian Arthur: Economist credited with developing the modern approach to increasing returns, and one of the pioneers of the science of complexity. Author of three books including <em>The Nature of Technology: What it Is and How it Evolves. <\/em>External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. <\/p><p>Cesar Hidalgo: Physicist, writer, and entrepreneur. Associate Professor at MIT, and Director of the Collective Learning group at the MIT Media Lab. Co-founder of Datawheel, a company that specializes in digital transformation solutions for governments and large companies. Author of <em>Why Information Grows <\/em>and co-author of <em>The Atlas of Economic Complexity. <\/em><\/p><p>Twitter:<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cesifoti?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"> @cesifoti<\/a><\/p><p>Further reading:<\/p><p>Complexity Economics: a different framework for economic thought: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftuvalu.santafe.edu%2F~wbarthur%2FPapers%2FComp.Econ.SFI.pdf\">https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftuvalu.santafe.edu%2F~wbarthur%2FPapers%2FComp.Econ.SFI.pdf<\/a><\/p><p>Economic Complexity: From useless to keystone: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchidalgo.com%2Fs%2Fnphys4337.pdf\">https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchidalgo.com%2Fs%2Fnphys4337.pdf<\/a><\/p><p>Complexity Economics Shows Us Why Laissez-Faire Economics Always Fails:<a href=\"http:\/\/evonomics.com\/complexity-economics-shows-us-that-laissez-faire-fail-nickhanauer\/\"> http:\/\/evonomics.com\/complexity-economics-shows-us-that-laissez-faire-fail-nickhanauer\/<\/a><\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"\">Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Is economic growth all about money, trade, and GDP, or are healthy economies built on a different foundation? In this episode, economist W. Brian Arthur and MIT physicist Cesar Hidalgo explain why human knowledge, knowhow, and innovation are t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21744,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21743\/revisions\/21744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}