
Edmund Phelps on Mass Flourishing
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The Steam Age and the Entertainment Industry
I'm not a technologist, but i would think that most industries could have got along in 19 try. Could a could have gotten along pretty well without steama. We're we shouldn't be forgetting the so called creative industries. Do they need steam in order to increase a box office receipts? Withwith with their new developmentsa, no, i mean not. Their advances were not based on steam. Sa, cotton was took the place of a wool t was quite important. A, disease rates fell as ta result of that. And a, again, what's that? Ats that have to do with steam and the steam age?
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