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Examining a list of the 75 richest people in the history of the world, Gladwell notes that “an astonishing 14 are Americans born within nine years of one another in the mid-19th century.” http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2008/11/17/the-outliers/

England's colonial shipping trade and railroads were also technologies that changed the economics of business, making fortunes in the process.



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