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222: Joel Kotkin: The rise and fall of Silicon Valley

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The Inertia of Silicon Valley

Sally Kohn: Silicon Valley lacks the dynamism that it had back in the 1980s. She asks how much of this is a familiar story of capitalism and how much is unique to what was taking place there. Kohn: It's not exactly like the great oil discoveries of the past or the construction of machines or the industrial revolution. But I wonder if you could just describe its journey from dynamism to oligarchy.

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