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Got $1.2T to invest in roads and other infrastructure? Here's how to figure out how to spend it wisely

  • Written by Anna Nagurney, Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Got $1.2T to invest in roads and other infrastructure? Here's how to figure out how to spend it wiselyA collapsed bridge in Atlanta in 2017 backed up traffic for a month.AP Photo/David Goldman

The American economy is underpinned by networks.

Road networks carry traffic and freight; the internet and telecommunications networks carry our voices and digital information; the electricity grid is a network carrying energy; financial networks transfer...

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