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    Peter Berkowitz

    Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow

    Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Since 2019, he has been serving on the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff in the office of the secretary. He is a 2017 winner of the ...

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    Policy Seminar on Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

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    Monday, November 3, 2014

    Peter Thiel spoke about the basic principles that underlie innovative products and startup firms, using examples from his own experience starting up firms such as Paypal and Palantir. He  emphasized the importance of creating a firm or product with characteristics of monopoly, and contrasted that idea with the distinction between monopoly and competition taught in economics.

    “Looking in the Wrong Direction”

    Research | Articles | by Peter M. Robinson
    Monday, October 19, 2020

    Matt Ridley, author of How Innovation Works, explains that all innovation involves an element of surprise—as do challenges, such as Covid-19, that we can only meet by innovating. “We should have been worrying about pandemics all along.”

    George Gilder: Forget Cloud Computing, Blockchain is the Future

    Research | Podcasts
    Monday, September 24, 2018

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    Author of Life After Google, George Gilder on the future of technology. 

    Ross Douthat’s Decadent Society

    Research | Podcasts
    Tuesday, June 2, 2020

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    In his new book, The Decadent Society, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat presents a theory: “Western society stopped advancing in the second half of the 20th century."

    Property Rights, Innovation, And Prosperity

    Research | Podcasts
    Thursday, September 17, 2020

    Property Rights, Innovation, And Prosperity with Terry Anderson and Stephen Haber.

    Keeping The Lights On At America’S Nuclear Power Plants: The Cornerstone Of America’s Central Position In The Global Nuclear Enterprise

    News | News/Press
    Thursday, August 3, 2017

    As President Trump recently announced efforts to revive nuclear energy, the Hoover Institution Press released Keeping the Lights on at America’s Nuclear Power Plants, which examines nuclear power plant closures in America during a period of economic instability and fundamental policy challenges.

    Mathematical Challenges To Darwin’s Theory Of Evolution, With David Berlinski, Stephen Meyer, And David Gelernter

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    Monday, July 22, 2019

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    Based on new evidence and knowledge that functioning proteins are extremely rare, should Darwin’s theory of evolution be dismissed, dissected, developed or replaced with a theory of intelligent design?

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