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He called this period the “Great Stagnation”, and he proposed a cultural solution rather than an economic one: raise the social status of scientists
that, contrary to standard belief, the market shares of many technology companies could be predicted with great accuracy, even if the underlying changes in technology changed frequently.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
the data convincingly show that the net result was fewer jobs for Americans with disabilities.
Stephen J. Dubner • SuperFreakonomics
Recognizing that capital is made, and not simply the product of superior skills, shifts attention to the processes by which different assets are slated for legal coding and to the states that endorse relevant legal modules and offer their coercive powers to enforce them.
Katharina Pistor • The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
The data are consistent and unambiguous: the 1870s was a decade of very strong growth.
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
But in the cash-incentive version, the men blew away the women.
Stephen J. Dubner • SuperFreakonomics
Many legal scholars have already drawn attention to the fact that the operation of the market hinges on legal institutions that facilitate price discovery.