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# Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream

**Brand:** jonathan grubersimon johnson
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Thoughtful, practical ideas for broadly-shared growth
  

*by O***M on Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2019*

This is a wonderful book, one that I suggest reading, that blends economics, history, and public policy into a practical action plan.  Importantly, it is a plan that if generally followed would benefit large portions of the United States, creating economic benefits across many regions, industries, and groups of people.The proposal is to locate innovation-driven commercial centers in promising cities.  The method is to reinvigorate the tradition of broadly-distributed Federal funding for research and development.  Money put toward research and development produces new scientific knowledge and practical discoveries that would flow into an institutional arrangement involving the research center, private sector actors, and government entities, each playing a different role, but collectively working to create economic growth and to promote the common good.It is an appealing idea, since it would achieve several important things at once – creating growth and opportunity outside of the glamor-metros; providing a money source for risky or long-term research work that the private sector disfavors; and establishing a model of how public and private sectors can work cooperatively in a way to produces both collective and individual benefits.  Also appealing is the prospect that the funding could serve as a corrective to the sector bias in private capital flows toward digital or less capital intensive projects (e.g., software), and away from more physical or capital intensive projects (e.g., manufacturing something).The proposal mostly works within existing institutional structures, and would be using money flows to encourage new activity and to change the working dynamic between the institutions.  Although there would likely be a substantial need for new property, technical facilities, infrastructure, etc., existing organizations would provide the oversight.  The work and risk around new entity formation would be centered on creating companies based on the discoveries and inventions.The authors are realistic in seeing a substantial private sector role, recognizing that researchers and inventors, as well as the government, will need help shaping their knowledge into a product that can succeed in a market.There are also creative ideas of how to handle the site selection process, and intriguing thoughts around how to socialize the economic benefits that are created.The authors’ funding suggestion is $100 billion per year, which seems modest when compared to the $400 billion per year it would take to match Federal innovation spending during its 1960s peak.  A number somewhere in between could make more sense, as it would be a shame to develop a strong plan only to underfund it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Mind-opening and Convincing
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2021*

I purchased this book for my 86 year old father, who, when I asked him what he thought of the book, prefaced his response by reminding me that he's been a fiscally conservative Republican his whole life. He said that he hadn't previously considered federal spending for scientific research for scientific purposes (outside of medicine) to be a good idea, but after reading this book he had a new outlook on the subject. He felt the authors made a strong case for the benefits to society at large of doing so. He noted that the authors stated their argument in so many different ways that it got a little redundant, but overall he thought it was a good read.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Terrific Read
  

*by A***  on Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2022*

This was an amazing book. It truly opens your eyes to a whole new perspective of growth in America. As an individual that grew up in Silicon Valley, this book exemplifies all the reasons why we need to invest in developing other areas of our country if we want to be back on top. Definitely would recommend to anyone looking to broaden their perspectives of what it means to be American.

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