How physics can explain why some countries are rich and others are poor
AUG 21, 2007
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.021393
Slate.com : If economics can tell us something useful about crime, marriage, or carpoolingâmdash;as I believe it canâmdash;then other academic disciplines should have something to tell us about economies. Last month, Science published an example that may turn out to be important. Two physicists, Cesar Hidalgo and Albert-László Barabási, and two economists, Bailey Klinger and Ricardo Hausmann, have been drawing unusual pictures of economic “space” that promise a deeper understanding of the biggest question in economics: why poor countries are poor.
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