The Fort Worth Star Telegram featured an article this past weekend detailing Texas economist Ray Perry's list of what he considers to have been pivotal events or developments in making Texas a leading economic state. Included among the list are: the work of pioneering heart-surgery Doctors DeBakey & Cooley in establishing Houston, Texas as one of the premier Healthcare-biomedical complexes in the country, the 1973 OPEC oil embargo and its effect on transforming the Texas energy industry, the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA in 1994) and the wonders of Air Conditioning among others.
From The Fort-Worth Star TelegramRead more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/10/09/3431641/economist-ray-perrymans-top-10.html#ixzz1aOUkhJIi
The population of Texas increased nearly two times faster than the country since 1974, while before 1960, grew at the same speed. The difference? The good old A / C. In 1965, half of the homes and cars in Texas had air conditioning. Perry man argues would be the relocation of people in the South, or move to the suburbs and spend all that time driving to work.
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