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The Wiki Man

Why our greatest inventors are supreme hucksters

8 August 2020

9:00 AM

8 August 2020

9:00 AM

People often tell me I have a strange way of looking at the world. Obviously, it doesn’t seem strange to me. But I do tend to see the world backwards. For instance, most people think the principal obstacles to economic and technological growth are all about supply. To me, it’s all in the demand.

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