<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">a little bit off topic, but not much.  and a very good use of comparative data:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/new-york-infrastructure-costs.html">https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/new-york-infrastructure-costs.html</a></span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">also, on the subject of project overruns:</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> </span></font><a href="https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9yc3MuYXJ0MTkuY29tL2ZyZWFrb25vbWljcy1yYWRpbw&amp;episode=Z2lkOi8vYXJ0MTktZXBpc29kZS1sb2NhdG9yL1YwL05WSzZxaGZFT0NsSnJGLXNHc2cwSnlfdzBid2s0bDdDSTNQbjV5Q1djYzA&amp;at=1560113720246">https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9yc3MuYXJ0MTkuY29tL2ZyZWFrb25vbWljcy1yYWRpbw&amp;episode=Z2lkOi8vYXJ0MTktZXBpc29kZS1sb2NhdG9yL1YwL05WSzZxaGZFT0NsSnJGLXNHc2cwSnlfdzBid2s0bDdDSTNQbjV5Q1djYzA&amp;at=1560113720246</a></div><div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Jonathan Coopersmith</span></div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Professor</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Department of History</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Texas A&amp;M University</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">College Station, TX  77843-4236</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">979.739.4708 (cell)</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">979.862.4314 (fax)</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>Latest article:  </font><font color="#0b6698" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/faxing-is-old-tech-so-why-is-it-also-growing-in-popularity/2019/03/08/d01c638a-2f0b-11e9-86ab-5d02109aeb01_story.html" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/faxing-is-old-tech-so-why-is-it-also-growing-in-popularity/2019/03/08/d01c638a-2f0b-11e9-86ab-5d02109aeb01_story.html</a></u></font><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><i>FAXED.  The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine</i> (Johns Hopkins University Press) is the co-recipient of the 2016 Business History Conference Hagley Prize for best book in business history.  </font><br></div><div><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>