Analyzing the Impact of Massive Capital Investment
A historian describes a period where an entire manufacturing sector rapidly replaced its core machinery to adapt to a new raw material. The historian states that the sheer scale and cost of this re-tooling were "equivalent to the formation of a new industry." In economic terms, explain two distinct reasons why such a massive capital investment might be characterized in this way.
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