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You Can't Tariff Knowledge (with César Hidalgo)
Tariffs won’t save America’s economy—but knowledge might. In the third episode of our Trade series, Nick and Goldy sit down with physicist César Hidalgo to explore how prosperity really grows—not through tariffs or trickle-down promises, but through the accumulation of knowledge and know-how. Hidalgo explains why digital exports don’t show up in trade data, why tariffs fail, and why the future belongs to countries that invest in research, strategy, and human talent.
César Hidalgo is the director of the Center for Collective Learning, with offices at the Toulouse School of Economics and…
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