Episode description

Sam Hammond is the director of poverty and welfare policy at the Niskanen Center and Brink Lindsey is vice president and director of the Open Society Project at the Niskanen Center. Both are returning guests to the podcast, and they join David again on Macro Musings to talk about their new pro-growth report titled, *Faster Growth, Fairer Growth: Policies for a High Road, High Performance Economy.* Specifically, they detail a number of different policies the US government could adopt to achieve faster and fairer economic growth, including social insurance modernization, child allowances, and more.

Transcript for the episode can be found here.

Sam’s Twitter: @hamandcheese

Sam’s Niskanen profile: https://www.niskanencenter.org/author/samuel-hammond/

Brink’s Twitter: @lindsey_brink

Brink’s Niskanen profile: https://www.niskanencenter.org/author/brink-lindsey/

Related Links:

*Faster Growth, Fairer Growth: Policies for a High Road, High Performance Economy* by Brink Lindsey and Sam Hammond

https://www.niskanencenter.org/faster-growth-fairer-growth-policies-for-a-high-road-high-performance-economy/

*Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?* by Nicholas Bloom, Charles Jones, John Van Reenen, and Michael Webb

https://web.stanford.edu/~chadj/IdeaPF.pdf

*How Asia Works* by Joe Studwell

https://groveatlantic.com/book/how-asia-works/

David’s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth

David’s blog: http://macromarketmusings.blogspot.com/