[barracutha]

You may like Why Information Grows by Cesar Hidalgo. The principal behind it is called Economic Complexity. It is based on the applications of network and graph theory using export data of a country, region or city as a proxy to its productivity and innovation. I find it pretty interesting.

[JacobDotVI]

Interesting! Sounds like it's potentially come from the public policy / macro economic modeling side. I'll check it out.