Historical example: the industrial age boom just before the civil war through the turn of 20th CenturyThe Railroad Age

• opened up new markets

The economic boom came only in part from the massive building (and overbuilding) of the railroads. More important is how the railroads changed other parts of the economy:

• increased machine-based manufacturing

• created new managerial processes,

including governmental processes

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