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Diane Coyle reviews Learning by Doing
"James Bessen’s book Learning By Doing: The Real Connection between Innovation, Wages and Wealth is excellent. It strikes a balance between meaty analysis and description of historical episodes of technical change, and is at the same time very accessible.
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“Economic historians have long understood that most of the economic benefit from many major new technologies does not come from the initial commercialization of the original invention but from the eventual implementation.”
― Learning by Doing: The Real Connection Between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth
― Learning by Doing: The Real Connection Between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth
“If these examples are typical, then 75 to 95 percent of the productivity gains from many major new technologies were realized only after decades of improvements in the implementation.”
― Learning by Doing: The Real Connection Between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth
― Learning by Doing: The Real Connection Between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth
