The existence of innovation-blocking institutions should of course not come as a surprise, but what makes such institutions prevalent and effective in some periods and not in others?

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Most of it is, of course, radiated back into space. (It is the partial blocking of this radiation by gases such as carbon dioxide that causes the much-talked-of greenhouse effect.) Some of it, however, goes in the opposite direction, into the ground.

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