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Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies is an interdisciplinary work of economic theory by César Hidalgo, a physicist known for research on economic complexity and networks. The book asks why some places develop broader and more sophisticated productive capabilities than others, but it approaches that familiar economic question through the physical nature of information. Hidalgo argues that wealth is not adequately understood as money, output, or even technology alone. It rests on the capacity to embody useful knowhow in ordered arrangements of matter, from simple tools to complex products and organizations. Drawing on information theory, thermodynamics, network science, and economics, he explains how information can accumulate locally even in a universe governed overall by increasing entropy. The purpose is not to discard institutions, markets, or human skills, but to place them in a wider account of how societies learn to make more complex things. It is a conceptual argument about the origins, limits, and distribution of productive knowledge.