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Seiko, Swatch, and the Swiss Watch Industry (with Aled Maclean-Jones)

EconTalk by Library of Economics and Liberty

Feb 16, 202601:01:29Education

How did an industry survive a technology that should have made it obsolete? Aled Maclean-Jones explains to EconTalk's Russ Roberts how Japanese quartz watches nearly wiped out Swiss watchmaking with cheaper, more accurat...