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John Nye on Revisionist Economic History and Having Too Many Hobbies

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The Backwardness of French Agriculture

Was the backwardness of French agriculture a reason why to this day France in some ways has better food than Great Britain? You know, I'm not sure about that. It is exactly one of those big puzzles in French economic history that people are still worrying about. And it's not unlike the problem of structural backwardness in a lot of poorer countries today.

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