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We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us. Did you ever think what those sleepers are that underlie the railroad? Each one is a man.

— Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
2w ago

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us. Did you ever think what those sleepers are that underlie the railroad? Each one is a man, an Irishman, or a Yankee man. The rails are laid on them, and they are covered with sand, and the cars run smoothly over them.

3mo ago
noahpinion.blog
Could development economics be more useful?

A profession that knows everything about microfinance impact evaluations and almost nothing about industrialization has misallocated its own intellectual capital on a pretty heroic scale.

6mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine and now we are ourselves parts of the machine.

6mo ago
3quarksdaily.com
The path of industrialization in China — and America

Through them, the documentary poses quiet, hard questions about what industrialization means, what progress costs, and how China — as a manufacturing power — shapes the experience of modernization in African nations.

8mo ago

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