Professor Lamoreaux Comments on Renewed Interest in Tinkering Amid the Economic Crisis in Wall Street Journal Article

November 12, 2009 -- Professor Naomi Lamoreaux commented in a Wall Street Journal article on a renewed interest in the American tradition of tinkering amid the economic crisis.

Innovation in the U.S. is peppered with examples of tinkerers who started out small, but came up with big ideas, says Naomi Lamoreaux, an economic historian at the University of California, Los Angeles. "The really dynamic times in our history are times when you have lots of ordinary people who think they have a chance to make a difference."

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