# Professor Michael Spence's work on economic growth is referenced

1 Faculty News April 11, 2016 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/sites/currentaccounts/2016/04/11/the-u-s-should-follow-china-and-spains-lead-and-build-more-connectivity-infrastructure/print/) -- "As Nobel laureate [Michael Spence](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/a-michael-spence) has argued, the internal growth of economies would never have reached today’s rates without the cross-border flows of resources, capital and technology."

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