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Article: THIRD INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN FAST-FORWARD.(Living Today)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- April 22, 1990
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Byline: Patrick Kurp Staff writer
On a shelf in his office at Union College, Joseph Finkelstein keeps the copper plate used in 1973 to print the title page of his first book.
Inverted, like a mirror image, read the words "Economists and Society." Back then, Finkelstein mailed to his publisher an unwieldy, ink-smudged, double-spaced manuscript.
A mere 17 years later, Finkelstein has just sent to his publisher his latest book - all 480 pages of "American Economics: From the Great Crash to the Third Industrial Revolution" - in the form of a computer disk. It's neat, clean, weighs in at a couple of ounces, and leaves no relic of 19th-century ...