Economist Gale Pooley is (half) responsible for the groundbreaking book Superabundance, which he co-authored with Cato Institute’s Marian Tupy. In today’s featured video from a past COSM conference, Dr. Pooley sits down with Discovery Institute’s Jay Richards to talk about how human knowledge and the “time price revolution” have led to an era of unprecedented abundance. Counter the dooms-dayers, Pooley shows how radically better off we are than our ancestors. The more innovation, the more material abundance. His ideas, expressed here in 2021, are as relevant as ever. (REGISTER NOW FOR COSM 2023)

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We’ve been sharing a number of lectures from past COSM conferences. This video is just one of many you can find at the Bradley Center’s YouTube page. There you’ll find several lectures, interviews, and panels dealing with issues that range from economics, Big Tech, and artificial intelligence. Notable speakers include 2022 Kyoto Prize winner Carver Mead, venture capitalist Peter Thiel, and George Gilder, co-founder of Discovery Institute and author of Life After Capitalism: The Meaning of Wealth, the Future of the Economy, and the Time Theory of Money.