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I respond to these sessions and the whole program as one trained in history, whose work has been almost entirely on U.S. economic institutions in the period from 1880 to the present. Most of these institutions either were, or aspired to be, large-scale. Some of them failed. Most of these institutions involved a distinctive, and for their time relatively modern, technology.
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Galambos, L., Mayntz, R., Hughes, T. (1991). Reflections and Triangulation. In: La Porte, T.R. (eds) Social Responses to Large Technical Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 58. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3400-2_9
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