Infrastructure and Inequality
New Books in Economics
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Ethnography and Infrastructure
I was moved by a story that you told in one of the talks I watched about Reckel Nelson a woman in Atlantic Georgia and I thought it was really gave a hard hitting and very specific story about kind of how access to infrastructure can affect people's lives. You know with statistics you have the other problem that you don't have with stories which is how do I give life to this just like abstract data point? There's no human side to it so I tried to show in this story just as a way to give the punch on the beginning it shows really the human toll and price that happens with decisions and biases that happen in infrastructure.
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