The strictly empirical problem [Paul] Romer was addressing [in his thesis] was the reality that growth seemed to have been speeding up for more than a century instead of slowing down, as had been expected. He reasoned that it must have to do with the internal dynamic of science: the more you learn, the faster you learn new things.
—David Warsh, Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations
The strictly empirical problem [Paul] Romer was addressing [in his thesis] was the reality that growth seemed to have been speeding up for more than a century instead of slowing down, as had been expected. He reasoned that it must have to do with the internal dynamic of science: the more you learn, the faster you learn new things.
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