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Gates' Question
With two simple questions Bill Gates provides us more insight into globalization than half-a-dozen books.
Twenty years ago would you rather have been a B-student in Poughkeepsie or a genius in Shanghai? And today?
That's Bill Gates, according to Tom Friedman in an interview in the April issue of Wired.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on April 27, 2005 at 07:09 AM in Economics | Permalink
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Twenty years ago would you rather have been a B-student in Poughkeepsie or a genius in Shanghai?
And today?
In this issue of Wired.
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