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When he was a high schooler working part-time for a wool merchant in Ontario, Canada, Peter Howitt was enthralled by watching the prices of wool rise and fall on a small teletype machine. His ...

Philippe Aghion is a Professor at the College de France and at INSEAD, and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics and a fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of ...

When the Nobel Prize went last week to three economists who championed the theory of creative destruction, new attention was paid to the idea that when new and better business practices sweep the ...