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The Origins of Efficiency

• Stripe Press • ISBN 9781953953520

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The Origins of Efficiency

• Stripe Press • ISBN-13 9781953953520

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ISBN 9781953953520 • Completeness 48

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An examination of how production processes--from penicillin to steel to semiconductors--get more efficient over time, and a powerful argument for efficiency as an underrated driver of progress. Efficiency is the engine that powers human civilization.

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Publisher: Stripe Press
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Contributor: looking at sectors where production costs haven't fallenContributor: and explores how we might harness the mechanisms of production

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Category: Economic DevelopmentCategory: History Of TechnologyCategory: Industrial EconomicsCategory: Manufacturing ProcessesCategory: Production ManagementCategory: Industrial ProductionCategory: Economic EfficiencyCategory: Technological Progress

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