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“If total factor productivity had continued to grow at its 1957 to 1973 rate then we today would be living in the world of 2076 rather than in the world of 2014” @ATabarrok marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
What if I told you that a cheap, effective and painless method of stopping tooth decay had just been invented! You’d be pretty happy. What if I told you that a cheap, effective and painless method of stopping tooth decay was invented over 100 years ago? marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
- "Silver diamine fluoride stops decay in 60 to 70 percent of cases with one application"
- "lost science is more common than you might think. Scurvy was “cured” as early as 1497, when Vasco de Gama’s crew discovered the power of citrus…but this cure was repeatedly lost, forgotten, rediscovered, misconstrued, confused."
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