REVIEW ESSAY Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber Stripe Press, 2024, 304 pages The New Lunar Society: An Enlightenment Guide to the Next Industrial Revolution by David A. Mindell MIT Press, 2025, 288 pages Tyler Cowen caused quite a stir when he published The Great Stagnation in 2011, claiming America achieved success by eating “all the low-hanging fruit of modern history” and was in for a period of stagnation. American productivity had basically been flat si...