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This opening paragraph does what most economics papers fail to do: make you care immediately.
Nathan Rothschild was richer than entire nations. And he died from an infection that costs $10 to cure today. Billionaires today have everything money can buy, and yet their wellbeing still improves when new technology is invented.
The point: wealth isn't just about consuming more of the same things. It's about innovation creating new goods that didn't exist before.
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