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In this week\u2019s episode, David is joined by two guests, who make a case for economic optimism. Michael Mandel, chief economist at the Progressive Policy Institute, and Bret Swanson, president of Entropy Economics and visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, are the co-authors of the new paper, \u201cThe Coming Productivity Boom: Transforming the Physical Economy with Information.\u201d Michael and Bret argue that, despite the slowdown in productivity of the last few decades, innovations in information technology such as artificial intelligence are going remake our economy for the better. David\u2019s blog: http://macromarketmusings.blogspot.com/ Michael Mandel\u2019s homepage: http://www.progressivepolicy.org/author/mmandel/ Brett Swanson\u2019s homepage: http://www.bretswanson.com/ David\u2019s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth Michael Mandel\u2019s Twitter: @MichaelMandel Bret Swanson\u2019s Twitter: @JBSay Related links: \u201cThe Coming Productivity Boom: Transforming the Physical Economy with Information\u201d by Michael Mandel and Bret Swanson http://www.techceocouncil.org/clientuploads/reports/TCC%20Productivity%20Boom%20FINAL.pdf