Economist Profile: Cesar Hidalgo

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The work of Cesar Hidalgo is important in understanding the dynamics of economic growth in knowledge economies

Cesar Hidalgo is an assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab in the United States, and faculty associate at Harvard University's Center for International Development. 

He has been at the forefront of research into the economics of networks and complexity and their connections with how countries grow and reach new levels of prosperity.

According to Hidalgo, information is what makes the universe interesting, for example the products made by Apple and which help to make it the most profitable business in the world are essentially crystallised information.

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