"Knowledge and insight need not be technological or scientific for it to be economically valuable and decisive for the material well-being of the society as a whole. Something as mundane as retailing changed radically during the course of the twentieth century, revolutionizing both department stores and grocery stores— and raising the standard of living of millions of people by lowering the costs of delivering goods to them."
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Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics, 4th ed. (2010), Ch. 5. The Rise and Fall of Business
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