by Cesar Hidalgo
Hidalgo argues information is physical and grows when embedded in networks of people and firms. Economic development is about a society's capacity to compute, store, and recombine practical knowledge.
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It draws on The Selfish Gene and The Origin of Species.
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Hidalgo draws parallels between Dawkins' Selfish Gene concept of information replication and how economies grow through information crystallisation
References Darwin's Origin of Species evolutionary framework as an analogy for how economic complexity evolves
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