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In 1872, John Gast painted ‘American Progress,’ showing trains and roads spreading across the American West. John Gast, Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons

Infrastructure spending has always involved social engineering

Erika M Bsumek, The University of Texas at Austin and James Sidbury, Rice University

Government investment in roads, railroads and other public services has always involved social programming, both for good and for ill.

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