Hyping Innovation, Neglecting Maintenance
KPFA - Against the Grain
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The Emergence of the Idea of Technical Innovation in Economic Growth
After World War II, the drive toward innovation accelerated. Economists started hypothesizing that there was an X factor out there that was creating all this growth. And eventually they hypothesized that that X factor was technical change or innovation. The Epcot Center at Disney is just like an agglomeration of these corporate images.
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