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Don’t Mock the Artisanal-Pickle Makers
Via the New York Times, an interesting editorial on Artisanal and Craft businesses and their potential to engender change in the American economy:
It’s tempting to look at craft businesses as simply a rejection of modern industrial capitalism. But the craft approach is actually something new — a happy refinement of the excesses of our industrial era plus a return to the vision laid out by capitalism’s godfather, Adam Smith. One of his central insights in “The Wealth of Nations” is the importance of specialization. When everyone does everything — sews their own clothes, harvests their own crops, bakes their own bread — each act becomes inefficient, because generalists are rarely as quick or able as specialists.
Illustration ©2012 New York Times
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