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This week we are taking a look at the latest winner of the ACOUP Senate poll, which posed the question "Why didn't the Roman Empire have an industrial revolution?" To answer that, we need to get into some detail on what the industrial revolution itself was and the preconditions that produced it, as well as...
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NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. I'm not an economic historian, but like most growth economists I am an avid consumer of economic history. Maybe it's our version of "physics envy". Regardless, it isn't always obvious why growth economists look backwards so much...
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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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The relationship between the Alt Right and the Alt Light, as well as "patriot" organizations like the Oath Keepers, has often been more pragmatic than comfortable. And maintaining this coalition has not been easy, requiring compromises on language, targets, and allies. To the Alt Right, compromise on core principles threatens the ideological purity they were founded to uphold.4 The Alt Right already constituted a coalition, linking together the "race realist" pseudoscientists, racial pagans, European New...
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