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Posted on October 6, 2011

Jobs: A Vision of American Entrepreneurship

[This is a guest post by Tim Bresnahan, the Landau Professor in Technology and the Economy at Stanford University; Ed.] Steve Jobs has died. We should remember his accomplishments and the vision of American entrepreneurship he embodied. The PC business was founded by a ragtag band of outsiders. Steve, a lotus-eating less-than-successful Atari employee, was …

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Posted on October 5, 2011

The Representative Agent in the Technological World

I live in a world of economics where we tend to doubt the power of the individual. To be sure, there are individuals who are in positions of power and who can inflict damage on the world. But in the world of business, these tend to wash out. Leaders may come and go but very …

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