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Book · 2007 · History

The Horse in the City

Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century

by Clay McShane, Joel Arthur Tarr · Recommended by 1 person on 1 podcast

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That's a phrase that comes out of the work by two colleagues of mine, Clay McShane and Joel Tar, who wrote a book called The Horse in the City, that makes you think about the horse functionally, and it brings this kind of power, which humans have been using for centuries, into the same space as other kinds of energy.
Ann N. Greene · Freakonomics Radio · Oct 2025 Listen at 23:48

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“That's a phrase that comes out of the work by two colleagues of mine, Clay McShane and Joel Tar, who wrote a book called The Horse in the City, that makes you think about the horse functionally, and it brings this kind of power, which humans have been using for centuries, into the same space as other kinds of energy”

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