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notesonliberty.com
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... |
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www.stephenfry.com
The comparison seems rather good, don't you think? If Gutenberg's revolution was Pandora 2.0 and the Industrial Revolution 3.0 then the information age is Pandora 4.0. |
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technicshistory.com
[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... |
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www.chrisritchie.org
Viewing the Russia-Ukraine hostilities with a historical perspective (South Ossetia and Crimea) because this might be a time to join cash gang. |
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