David Kross

Economics and Institutions Editor covering infrastructure, trade, demographic change, and the systems behind prosperity.

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Roads reveal how states moved people, goods, information, and authority across territory.

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Bridges connect physical distances while also connecting markets, neighborhoods, territories, and cities.

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Bridges, water networks, power systems, and transport corridors depend on models that translate physical constraints into decisions.

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Cities require millions of small acts of coordination involving transport, housing, water, energy, waste, safety, and commerce.

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Standardized measurement allowed people to compare observations, build together, trade fairly, and accumulate knowledge.

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