Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies

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Economic Complexity and Environmental Performance: Evidence from a World Sample (2019, background): “2 Hidalgo [62] argues that what Kuznets called ‘measure of our ignorance’ in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech is actually our individual mental capacity, our ’personbytes’.”
The Principle of Relatedness (2018, background): “Knowledge continues to be embodied in networks of people [12], and is concentrated in a few places, while bits and products travel swiftly around the world.”
Economic complexity, human capital and income inequality: a cross-country analysis (2019, background): “A diverse range of opportunities also provides the poor with several means of moving up in the social stratification (Hidalgo 2015; Hartmann et al.”
Linking Economic Complexity, Institutions and Income Inequality (2015, background): “This means that the presence of complex industries in an economy, in addition to indicating the inclusiveness of that economy’s institutions, also reveals the knowledge and knowhow that is embodied in its population (Hidalgo, 2015).”