Why Does Europe Struggle with Innovation? With Luis Garicano | Hoover Institution

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Jon Hartley and Luis Garicano discuss Europe's struggles with innovation and regulation.

Jon Hartley and Luis Garicano discuss Luis’s career, including his time as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2019 to 2022, his research on firms, Europe’s struggles with innovation and regulation, and the future of the euro. Recorded on December 22, 2025. ABOUT THE SERIES Each episode of Capitalism and Freedom in the 21st Century, a video podcast series and the official podcast of the Hoover Economic Policy Working Group, focuses on getting into the weeds of economics, finance, and public policy on important current topics through one-on-one interviews. Host Jon Hartley asks guests about their main ideas and contributions to academic research and policy. The podcast is titled after Milton Friedman‘s famous 1962 bestselling book Capitalism and Freedom, which after 60 years, remains prescient from its focus on various topics which are now at the forefront of economic debates, such as monetary policy and inflation, fiscal policy, occupational licensing, education vouchers, income share agreements, the distribution of income, and negative income taxes, among many other topics. For more information about the podcast, or subscribe for the next episode, click here.

People in this episode

Host: Jon Hartley

Guest: Luis Garicano

Topics covered

• innovation
• Europe
• regulation
• economics
• public policy

Keywords

• innovation
• Europe
• Luis Garicano
• regulation
• euro

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hoover Institution

Places: Europe

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