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Wikipedia says the economists Stan Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis wrote articles in the Journal of Law and Economics in the 1990s.

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“In the 1990s, economists Stan Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis wrote articles in the Journal of Law and Economics”

Dvorak keyboard layout (Wikipedia), Wikipedia, 2026, Criticism.

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What it measures
The same section says they rejected the claim that QWERTY's dominance is due to market failure, and that the Dvorak typing study was criticized as biased.
What it does not show
This fact only dates the articles. Read the 1990 paper, The Fable of the Keys, for the argument itself.

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