Why is economic growth so important? How do we get economic growth? What are the key policies we must adopt to continue growth in this changing and hyper-competitive world? Economist Bob Litan of Brookings and the Kauffman Foundation, offers many good answers in this edition of Bloggingheads.tv, where he is interviewed by Will Wilkinson of Cato. They cover health care, education, immigration, and intellectual property, among other building blocks of entrepreneurial innovation.

Litan and Kauffman president Carl Schramm expertly summarized their case for growth here.