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| | This is the fourth and last part of our series (I, II, III, IV) examining the historical assumptions of Europa Universalis IV, Paradox Interactive's historical grand strategy computer game set in the early modern period. Last time we looked at how Europa Universalis IV often struggles to reflect the early modern history of places and...
| | pseudoerasmus.com
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| | Why China did not industrialise before Western Europe may be a tantalising and irresistible subject, but frankly it's a parlour game.What remainsunderexplored, however, is the moretractable issue of why Japan managed,butChina failed, to initiate an early transition to modern growth and convergence with the West. A recent paper argues that the gapin state capacity between...
| | economicsfromthetopdown.com
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| | I look at the rise and fall of the British and US empires, measured in terms of their share of world energy consumption.
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| In the liberal tradition, Adam is described as the one who must toil against a surrounding lack in order to be properly made man. But Genesis undercuts the idea that toil is man's "lot," if by it one means that toil is man's by nature, in the order of Creation, rather than by punishment, in the order of the Fall. (essay by Marc Barnes)