Discover more from Overcoming Bias

This is a blog on why we believe and do what we do, why we pretend otherwise, how we might do better, and what our descendants might do, if they don't all die.

Over 11,000 subscribers

Georgetown Talk Today

Robin Hanson

Oct 26, 2009

This evening I speak at Georgetown University on “The Long History of Economic Growth and its Implications for the Future.” The talk is 6:30-8:00pm at ICC 107, sponsored by the Georgetown Economics Honors Society, and open to the public.

Added: See slides, audio (sorry about poor quality).

4 Comments

Tim Tyler

May 15

Someone buy Robin a video camera for Christmas, please.

I hate it that the agricultural revolution and industrial revolution are still being referred to as "singularities" - apparently on the grounds that they represent really big changes.

That terminology appears to be without support from other historians. It seems like meaningless and pointless mumbo-jumbo to me. I propose dropping it. Surely it is best to call these things "revolutions" instead. That is the conventional term.

Expand full comment

I just added to this post, with links to slides n audio.

2 more comments...