How the rise of the post office explains American innovation
Wherever government extends its tentacles, innovation follows.
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To some contemporary technologists, that might sound like a joke without a punch line. But it’s a reasonable description of 19th-century America, according to a new working paper by Daron Acemoglu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, James Robinson of the University of Chicago and Jacob
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Walter Frick
Wed, 11 Jul 2018
Wed, 11 Jul 2018
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How the rise of the post office explains American innovation
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