http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/06/06/robin-hanson/reality-and-fantasy-in-economic-revolutions/ Big Ideas for a Better World Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:23:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/06/06/robin-hanson/reality-and-fantasy-in-economic-revolutions/#comment-1751 Ipso Facto » Blog Archive » The Coming (or Continued?) Hegemony of Sophisticates Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:56:34 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/06/06/robin-hanson/reality-and-fantasy-in-economic-revolutions/#comment-1751 [...] Florida’s harshest critic is George Mason University professor Robin Hanson, who says that economic growth is not driven so much by latte-swirling, Prius-driving sophisticos in New Economy tech enterprises, but by tiny improvements made at the “grunt work” level of production. The true structure of technologic revolutions, Hanson says, is not that of massive paradigm shifts precipitated by Florida’s lauded bohemians, but is rather the accretion resulting from ordinary, mundane discoveries of small improvements—unsung and unsexy. [...] […] Florida’s harshest critic is George Mason University professor Robin Hanson, who says that economic growth is not driven so much by latte-swirling, Prius-driving sophisticos in New Economy tech enterprises, but by tiny improvements made at the “grunt work” level of production. The true structure of technologic revolutions, Hanson says, is not that of massive paradigm shifts precipitated by Florida’s lauded bohemians, but is rather the accretion resulting from ordinary, mundane discoveries of small improvements—unsung and unsexy. […]

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