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| | The terminological dispute - Anthropocene or Capitalocene? - may not be so important. What does matter is which...
| | technicshistory.com
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| | [Part of a series: The Age of Steam] Up until the 1780s, steam engines were used almost exclusively for pumping water. To the extent that they drove industrial machinery, it was almost always indirectly, by lifting water uphill from whence it could run back down and turn a waterwheel. Industry thus remained dispersed in villages...
| | notesonliberty.com
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| | On Branko Milanovic's recommendation, I read Aldo Schiavone's The End of the Past. Scholarly and elegantly written, it provides one of the best imaginative reconstructions of the ancient Roman economy. Previous posts have touched on the economies of late antiquity, the modernist primitivist debate, and diagnosed problems in many recent assessments of the ancient economy...
| | underthebanyan.blog
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| Policy debates about meat and climate change are messy, deeply political and heavily influenced by powerful vested interests.