Note: As the teaser for this video, see "Bonnie Kavoussi's Tweetstorm on 'Restoring American Growth'"

In Summer, 2016, I moved from the University of Michigan to the University of Colorado Boulder. This Spring, Nick Flores and Maria Oliveras organized an inaugural public lecture for me as the Eugene D. Eaton Jr. Professor of Economics. I took on the tough question of how to restore American Growth, a question closely related my post two days ago, "Why Is Productivity Growth So Low? 23 Economic Experts Weigh In|FocusEconomics."

Watching a bit of the video, I am pleased with how the talk turned out. Restoring American growth is a tough problem, and I wanted to be clear, so the talk is a long one, but I think one that will reward well the time of those who watch it. If I were to write a book about restoring American growth, this is the outline I would begin with in figuring out how to write it. 

I have to apologize for the slides themselves being washed out in the video by the lighting in the room. I explain the point of the slides well enough, you should be able to follow anyway. But the ideal way to watch this is probably to have the video in one window on your computer and to have the slides open in another window. Or if you are lucky enough to have two computers of any form (or be able to borrow), you might want to have the video going on one computer screen and the slides open on another.  

• Link to the slides for "Restoring American Growth"

Update: Tom Grey made a full document's worth of comments, which you can see here.

Since this talk, I have done a lot more studying and thinking about the obesity problem. Take a look at my posts on obesity:

• Stop Counting Calories; It's the Clock that Counts
• Forget Calorie Counting; It's the Insulin Index, Stupid
• Obesity Is Always and Everywhere an Insulin Phenomenon
• The Problem with Processed Food
• Which Is Worse for You: Sugar or Fat?
• Our Delusions about 'Healthy' Snacks—Nuts to That!
• My Giant Salad
• Using the Glycemic Index as a Supplement to the Insulin Index
• How Fasting Can Starve Cancer Cells, While Leaving Normal Cells Unharmed
• Why You Should Worry about Cancer Promotion by Diet as Much as You Worry about Cancer Initiation by Carcinogens
• Good News! Cancer Cells are Metabolically Handicapped
• How Sugar, Too Much Protein, Inflammation and Injury Could Drive Epigenetic Cellular Evolution Toward Cancer
• Meat Is Amazingly Nutritious—But Is It Amazingly Nutritious for Cancer Cells, Too?
• The Keto Food Pyramid
• Sugar as a Slow Poison
• How Sugar Makes People Hangry
• Why a Low-Insulin-Index Diet Isn't Exactly a 'Lowcarb' Diet
• Hints for Healthy Eating from the Nurse's Health Study
• The Case Against Sugar: Stephan Guyenet vs. Gary Taubes
• The Case Against the Case Against Sugar: Seth Yoder vs. Gary Taubes
• Gary Taubes Makes His Case to Nick Gillespie: How Big Sugar and a Misguided Government Wrecked the American Diet
• A Conversation with David Brazel on Obesity Research
• Magic Bullets vs. Multifaceted Interventions for Economic Stimulus, Economic Development and Weight Loss
• Mass In/Mass Out: A Satire of Calories In/Calories Out
• Carola Binder: The Obesity Code and Economists as General Practitioners
• Carola Binder—Why You Should Get More Vitamin D: The Recommended Daily Allowance for Vitamin D Was Underestimated Due to Statistical Illiteracy
• Jason Fung: Dietary Fat is Innocent of the Charges Leveled Against It
• Faye Flam: The Taboo on Dietary Fat is Grounded More in Puritanism than Science
• Diseases of Civilization
• Katherine Ellen Foley—Candy Bar Lows: Scientists Just Found Another Worrying Link Between Sugar and Depression
• Ken Rogoff Against Sugar and Processed Food
• Kearns, Schmidt and Glantz—Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research: A Historical Analysis of Internal Industry Documents
• Intense Dark Chocolate: A Review
• Salt Is Not the Nutritional Evil It Is Made Out to Be
• Confirmation Bias in the Interpretation of New Evidence on Salt
• Whole Milk Is Healthy; Skim Milk Less So
• Is Milk OK?
• How the Calories In/Calories Out Theory Obscures the Endogeneity of Calories In and Out to Subjective Hunger and Energy
• Putting the Perspective from Jason Fung's "The Obesity Code" into Practice
• 'Forget Calorie Counting. It's the Insulin Index, Stupid' in a Few Tweets
• Julia Belluz and Javier Zarracina: Why You'll Be Disappointed If You Are Exercising to Lose Weight, Explained with 60+ Studies (my retitling of the article this links to)
• Diana Kimball: Listening Creates Possibilities
• On Fighting Obesity
• The Heavy Non-Health Consequences of Heaviness
• Analogies Between Economic Models and the Biology of Obesity
• Debating 'Forget Calorie Counting; It's the Insulin Index, Stupid'
• Podcast: Miles Kimball Explains to Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal Why Losing Weight Is Like Defeating Inflation

Also see the last section of "Five Books That Have Changed My Life" and the podcast "Miles Kimball Explains to Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal Why Losing Weight Is Like Defeating Inflation." If you want to know how I got interested in diet and health and fighting obesity and a little more about my own experience with weight gain and weight loss, see my post "A Barycentric Autobiography."