Sam Bowman will describe how science, energy, infrastructure and housing unlock the entrepreneurship and innovation that drives progress. Drawing on Stripe Press's and Works in Progress's most popular books and articles, the talk will explain why cities are such powerful engines of progress, what has gone wrong with how we do science, how expensive energy holds back innovation, and how fixing these things can get us a world of abundance, prosperity, and peace. And he will argue that this is much more achievable than is commonly thought: that we can build a popular coalition in favour of progress and dynamism.