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New knowledge in physics and the economy

JUL 01, 1962
The following paper was presented as part of a symposium entitled “New Knowledge in Physics: A National Resource”, which was held on September 28, 1961, during the fourth annual meeting of the Corporate Associates of the American Institute of Physics at the Arden House, Harriman, N.Y.
Peter F. Drucker

All I plan to do today is to submit to you three rather elementary propositions and draw from them three equally elementary conclusions. I stress the “elementary”. For it is precisely because they are so obvious that they are so rarely noticed, and so rarely acted upon.

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Peter F. Drucker, Graduate Business School, New York University.

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