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Excerpt from Harvard Business Review -- "There’s more to progress than technological innovation. Breakthroughs can also result from innovations in management. Past work by another economist, Paul Romer, helps make the point. He explains that the history of progress is a history of two types of innovation: Inventions of new technologies, and introductions of new laws and social norms. We can make new tools, and we can make new rules. The two don’t always march in lockstep. In a period of time where one type of innovation flags, the other type can sometimes forge ahead."

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Additional coverage appeared on Bloomberg.