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When Talent Started Driving Economic Growth

Harvard Business Review

Some of the highlights: In 1975, baseball players fought for and were awarded free agency by arbitrator Peter Seitz — and salaries for athletic talent across all professional sports quickly skyrocketed. It took place in the fertile environment of the 1970s when the world woke up to the importance of talent and its incentives.

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