The railroad expanded the size of our markets and therefore almost everything marketable, creating industries where none existed before. Joseph Schumpeter explained such an outcome as the result of

a. the upswing (or recovery) phase of a multi-investment cycle
b. the upswing (or recovery) phase of an internal cycle
c. the upswing (or recovery) phase of an innovation cycle
d. an entrepreneurial revolution in U.S. industry
e. the combination of immigration and capital deepening


C

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