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If dense agglomerations of people are incubators of change, the mistake in studying African urbanization is to measure its convergence to a predefined modernity instead of looking at how society is being reinvented

Drawn from what Adam Tooze said

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economists The economists themselves and the schools they founded -- Smith, Mill, Keynes, Hayek, Friedman -- rather than any one economic question.

innovation Where new things come from and how they spread: invention against diffusion, and being near the factory floor.

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  1. Adam Tooze Economic historian, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis…
    If it is true that dense agglomerations of people are incubators of innovation and change, the mistake is to focus on the degree of conformity with, or convergence to some predefined vision of modernity, rather than to focus on the "reinvention of society" that the Economist so aptly highlights.

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