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Policy can manufacture a false necessity, and false necessity is the mother of wasteful invention.

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

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  1. Lant Pritchett

    Development economist

    There is an old saying that “necessity is the mother of invention” but it is also true that policies can create false necessity and false necessity can be the mother of costly, resource consuming, dumb inventions.

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