The United States, as of 2014, spends 160 times as much exploring space as it does exploring the oceans. That is from the new and interesting Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream, by Jonathan Gruber and Simon Johnson, two very eminent economists.  And if you are wondering, I […] The post U.S.A. fact of the day, Jump-Starting America appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.