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Why There More Hairdressers Now Than in 1871

Graham Watson

18th August 2015

Although this almost sounds like a set-up line from the excellent Twitter feed @corbynjokes, it isn't. It results from an excellent piece of research by Deloitte's Ian Stewart, Debapratim De and Alex Cole, "Technology and people: The great job-creating machine" which was nominated for the Society of Business Economists 2014‑15 Rybczynski Prize.

Graham Watson

Graham Watson has taught Economics for over twenty years. He contributes to Tutor2U, reads voraciously and is interested in all aspects of Teaching and Learning.

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