Econlinks this week

  • The death of the Renaissance man: “If knowledge accumulates as technology advances, then successive generations of innovators may face an increasing educational burden. Innovators can compensate through lengthening educational phases and narrowing expertise, but these responses come at the cost of reducing individual innovative capacities, with implications for the organization of innovative activity – a greater reliance on teamwork – and negative implications for growth.” This is from a super interesting, forthcoming ReStud paper, by Benjamin Jones.
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