Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 8 minutes ago

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Economics creates the world around us, and in this video I discuss the economics of QWERTY. It's a story of path dependence.

Papers Cited:
Paul A. David (1985). Clio and the Economics of QWERTY, The American Economic Review
Vol. 75, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings

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