The Great Enrichment
The Economic History Podcast
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The King at the Feast
The aristocracy of england, the men had a shockingly high rate of violent death because it was their job. Now we're importing vegetables from chila and so forth, from ors. But dutch tomatoes you can have any time of year, very inexpensively. In just physical terms, the average person is vastly better off. Well, maybe on feast days it was nice for a few moments, but it was really a terrible way to live.
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