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SUMMER SCHOOL 8: Productivity & Getting Lit

Planet Money

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Edison Was a Good Innovator

At 3 p.m. on September 4th, Edison flicked on the switch here at JP Morgan's office. About a square mile of lower Manhattan suddenly was lit by electricity. He recognized that these economic questions were just as important in designing what he did in laboratory. So most of it is actually the structure around it.

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