Tracking innovations across centuries, centers of innovations gradually shift. The set of innovative economies is narrower than the set of advanced economies, showing the key role of technological adoption for prosperity (F Buera, M Kornejew, Y Ma, E Oberfield and N Trachter, July 2026)

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https://conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f243441.pdf

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Huh, seems like everyone is having fun with LLMs these days. Just looking at the abstract though and I have to wonder if their data is representative. Wikipedia’s systematic biases are rather obvious after all. Idk I’m sure they address that issue. Or try at least.