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000749183 1001_ $$aHidalgo, César A.,$$d1979-$$eauthor.
000749183 24510 $$aWhy information grows :$$bthe evolution of order, from atoms to economies /$$cCesar Hidalgo.
000749183 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bBasic Books,$$c[2015]
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000749183 300__ $$a1 online resource (257 pages) :$$billustrations
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000749183 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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000749183 520__ $$a"Why do some nations prosper while others do not? While economists often turn to measures like GDP or per-capita income to answer this question, interdisciplinary theorist Cesar Hidalgo argues that there is a better way to understand economic success. Instead of measuring the money a country makes, he proposes, we can learn more from measuring a country's ability to make complex products--in other words, the ability to turn an idea into an artifact and imagination into capital. In Why Information Grows, Hidalgo combines the seemingly disparate fields of economic development and physics to present this new rubric for economic growth. He argues that viewing development solely in terms of money and politics is too simplistic to provide a true understanding of national wealth. Rather, we should be investigating what makes some countries more capable than others. Complex products--from films to robots, apps to automobiles--are a physical distillation of an economy's knowledge, a measurable embodiment of the education, infrastructure, and capability of an economy. Economic wealth is about applying this knowledge to turn ideas into tangible products, and the more complex these products, the more economic growth a country will experience. Just look at the East Asian countries, he argues, whose rapid rise can be attributed to their ability to manufacture products at all levels of complexity. A radical new interpretation of global economics, Why Information Grows overturns traditional assumptions about wealth and development. In a world where knowledge is quite literally power, Hidalgo shows how we can create societies that are limited by nothing more than their imagination"--$$cProvided by publisher.
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000749183 650_0 $$aInformation theory in economics.
000749183 650_0 $$aNew products.
000749183 650_0 $$aEconomic development.
000749183 650_0 $$aKnowledge, Theory of$$xEconomic aspects.
000749183 650_0 $$aPhysics.
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000749183 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aHidalgo, César A.$$tWhy information grows : the evolution of order, from atoms to economies.$$dNew York : Basic Books, [2015]$$z9780465048991
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