Matt Hourihan's guest appearances

Matt Hourihan

The Ricochet Audio Network Superfeed

Political Economy with Jim Pethokoukis

The Healthcare Policy Podcast ®  Produced by David Introcaso

Elon Musk

Benedict Evans

Ben Thompson

Tyler Cowen

Alex Trembath

Scott Kupor

Deirdre McCloskey

Ryan Bourne

Sara Seager

Bryan Caplan

Alex Nowrasteh

Stephen Davies

Charles Fishman

Safi Bahcall

Brian McCullough

OwlTail

As a share of GDP, federal support for science research in America has fallen from about 2 percent of GDP during the 1960s to about 0.6 percent today. Policymakers should reverse this trend in order to boost productivity growth, raise living standards, compete with Chinese innovation efforts, and manage future problems like climate change. Fortunately, Congress appears to be moving in this direction, and so I’m excited to discuss what the future of federal R&amp;D policy should look like with Matt Hourihan.Matt is the director of the R&amp;D Budget and Policy Program for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), where he focuses on past, present, and future federal science budgets.

<p>As a share of GDP, federal support for science research in America has fallen from about 2 percent of GDP during the 1960s to about 0.6 percent today. Policymakers should reverse this trend in order to boost productivity growth, raise living standards, compete with Chinese innovation efforts, and manage future problems like climate change. Fortunately, Congress appears to be moving in this direction, and so I’m excited to discuss what the future of federal R&amp;D policy should look like with Matt Hourihan.</p><p>Matt is the director of the R&amp;D Budget and Policy Program for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), where he focuses on past, present, and future federal science budgets.</p>

Matt Hourihan: Reversing the decline in public science support