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César A. Hidalgo is a Chilean-Spanish-American scholar known for his contributions to economic complexity and for his applied work on data visualization and artificial intelligence. Hidalgo is a tenured professor at the Toulouse School of Economics’ (TSE) Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the head of the Center for Collective Learning a multidisciplinary research laboratory with offices at Institute for Advanced Study (IAST) at TSE and the Corvinus Institute of Advanced Studies (CIAS) at Corvinus University of Budapest. He is also an Honorary Professor at the Alliance Manchester Business School of the University of Manchester.

Between 2010 and 2019 Hidalgo led MIT’s Collective Learning group and prior to that he was a research ...more

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	Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies 3.97 avg rating — 1,488 ratings — published 2015 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Atlas of Economic Complexity - Mapping Paths to Prosperity by Ricardo Hausmann, Sebastián Bustos, Michele Coscia 4.32 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Humans Judge Machines by César A. Hidalgo (Goodreads Author), César A. Hidalgo, Diana Orghian 4.05 avg rating — 41 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“This world is different from the one in which our species evolved only in the way in which matter is arranged.”
― César A. Hidalgo, Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies

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“To understand the physical origins of information we need to understand a few things first. One is the idea of a steady state. The second is the difference between a dynamic steady state and a static steady state.”
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“interactions that should be simply market transactions—such as simple forms of service procurement—wind up subject to a regime of governance that makes them far more complicated than they need to be.”
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“The allocation of the best jobs, just like that of the best apartments, tends to piggyback social networks.”
― César Hidalgo, Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies

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“Technologies that change society are technologies that change interactions between people”
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“Schooling is certainly not a great proxy for knowhow and knowledge, since it is by definition a measure of the time spent in an establishment, not of the knowledge embodied in a person’s brain.”
― César Hidalgo, Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies

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“economy is the collective system by which humans make information grow.”
― César Hidalgo, Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies

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“Products augment us, and this is a great reason why we want them.”
― César Hidalgo, Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies

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