Mises Wire
Author:
Peter St. Onge
Online Publish Date:
Is innovation slowing? Will it stop? A new paper by one Jonathan Huebner in the awesomely-named journal Technological Forecasting & Social Change argues that innovation is slowing, indeed it’s halved in the past hundred years. Because Huebner is a physicist, he naturally looks for abstract and generalizable reasons. These take him to dark