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Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation is a 2024 nonfiction book by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber that examines why periods of speculative excess can sometimes accelerate real technological progress. Rather than treating bubbles only as market failures, the authors argue that certain bubbles create unusual conditions for breakthroughs by lowering capital costs, attracting talent, and suspending normal institutional caution. The book is positioned at the intersection of economics, innovation policy, and history, and it uses examples such as railroads, electricity, the internet, the Manhattan Project, Apollo, and contemporary artificial intelligence to explain how transformative change often arrives through concentrated bursts of funding and ambition. Its purpose is not to defend irrational investing in general, but to distinguish between bubbles that simply destroy value and those that leave behind durable infrastructure, knowledge, and capabilities. The result is a provocative argument about stagnation, progress, and the hidden role of speculation in modern development.