The writer is an FT contributing editor and writes the Chartbook newsletter
At critical moments in history, technological change can produce not just economic growth. It can consolidate or disrupt political regimes.
In the wake of the first world war, Fordism was not only a production line, it offered the vision of a new culture of mass affluence.
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