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SUMMARY:Social Learning and Technological Change: American Agricultural Fai
 rs | History of Capitalism Research Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join the History of Capitlaism Research Workshop for an engagin
 g academic event feauting Juan David Torres and Professor James Campbell. 
 This stimulating conversation will explore agricultural productiy\, innova
 tion\, and history! The diffusion of new ideas is central to long-run prod
 uctivity growth\, but it can be constrained by costly information\, limite
 d credibility\, and uncertainty about local returns. These frictions are e
 specially salient in agriculture\, where geographic dispersion and distrus
 t in top-down advice limit the flow of ideas. I study whether social learn
 ing can scale to overcome these barriers using American agricultural fairs
 \, the largest experiment of farming gatherings in modern history. Promote
 d since the 1840s by farmers\, entrepreneurs\, and state boards of agricul
 ture\, county and state fairs brought rural households together annually\,
  combining prizes for crops and practices with exhibitions of frontier imp
 lements and methods. I assemble new data on fair expansion…\n\nhttps://l
 ocalz.events/e/social-learning-and-technological-change-american-agricultu
 ral-fairs-history-of-capitalism-research-workshop-139716
LOCATION:Building 200\, History Corner\, 450 Jane Stanford Way\, Building 2
 00\, Stanford\, CA 94305\, Stanford
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URL:https://localz.events/e/social-learning-and-technological-change-americ
 an-agricultural-fairs-history-of-capitalism-research-workshop-139716
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