Author: Virginia Postrel

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Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place.

Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place.

- Virginia Postrel

Cosmetics makers have always sold 'hope in a jar' - creams and potions that promise youth, beauty, sex appeal, and even love for the women who use them.

Cosmetics makers have always sold 'hope in a jar' - creams and potions that promise youth, beauty, sex appeal, and even love for the women who use them.

- Virginia Postrel

The growth of medical expenditures in the U.S. is not caused by administrative costs but by increases in the technical intensity of care over time - a.k.a. medical progress.

The growth of medical expenditures in the U.S. is not caused by administrative costs but by increases in the technical intensity of care over time - a.k.a. medical progress.

- Virginia Postrel

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