The United States has long overcome its less dynamic industries by replacing them with more dynamic ones.
"I have long overcome any embarrassment when people say 'I hope you don't mind but tell me what were they really like?' Of course I don't mind," writes Read in Nipper (1990).
Development economics may be contrasted with another branch of study, called growth economics, which is concerned with the study of the long-run, or steady-state, equilibrium growth paths of the economically developed countries, which have long overcome the problem of initiating development.
He had made a rapid impact after arriving from Fiorentina as a 19-year-old in 2012 but, two and a half years on, had fallen off Manuel Pellegrini's radar with no obvious explanation bar some niggling injuries he had long since overcome.
Rubenstein, who declined to participate in this story, has long since overcome his shyness.
She gardens, reads, takes Sabrina for long walks and sees movies (yes, by herself, having long since overcome the self-consciousness).
This would hardly be unusual in the United States, where filmmakers have long since overcome any queasiness about mocking sacred cows, whether nuns, Moses or the Pentagon.
"If there were ever a justification in 1992 or earlier for a start-up industry," he said recently, "that has long been overcome".
As Chass points out, blacks have long since overcome the discriminatory barriers to major league baseball, and the decline in numbers is because the black community's interest generally points to other sports.
