The Atlantic has published an excerpt from one of my favorite ebooks of last year, Launching an Innovation Renaissance. I might have chosen a different excerpt, but it is quite good all the same. In my ideal world, the U.S. center-right would embrace Tabarrok’s basic narrative and build its domestic policy agenda around it. I find this prospect somewhat more likely now than I had in, say, 2008, though the rise of Newt (ironically, given his oft-proclaimed technophilia) gives me pause.