Joel Mokyr
5 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Joel Mokyr · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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Jan 2, 2019
Mokyr: Scientific co-authorship was rare during early modern knowledge creation
“Much of the knowledge created at that time is created by single individuals. There's not that much collaboration, you know, co-authorship, and these are multiple names on papers and books that we see today, that wasn't very much, that was quite uncommon in tho…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Mokyr: Mutual feedback between knowledge and technology drives economic growth
“Now, what is true for steam engines is essentially true across the board. Knowledge. Builds technology, and technology builds knowledge, and that synergy between these two sort of different aspects of human knowledge is what drives essentially our modern econo…”
Jan 2, 2019
Mokyr: Quantum Leaps in Knowledge Require Recombining Different Fields
“What happens in many fields is that they tend very quickly to reach a situation in which progress becomes rather incremental, and that people basically take the sense of, well, what we know is basically all there is to know, and so we can sort of make little s…”
Jan 2, 2019
Mokyr: Trust in decentralized networks is built through expert peer vetting
“The reason that trust emerges is because that everybody knows that if you publish something or you, some discovery, some, Mathematical theorem that you have proven, or some planet you've discovered, or some new species that you found, that others will take, wi…”