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Should Taxpayers Pay for R&D? – with Jeffrey Miron and Aldo Musacchio

· 53 min · S8 E56

Episode Should Taxpayers Pay for R&D? – with Jeffrey Miron and Aldo Musacchio

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From the internet and GPS to vaccines and artificial intelligence, federal research funding has helped shape modern life, but should government still play such a large role in innovation? Jeffrey Miron, VP for Research at the Cato Institute and Economics Lecturer at Harvard, and Aldo Musacchio, Professor of Management and Economics at Brandeis, join Governors Haslam and Bredesen to debate whether taxpayer-funded research still makes sense in a world increasingly driven by private capital.

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