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#802 Jared Rubin - How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth

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The History of Capitalism

There's a whole new literature known as the history of capitalism. It makes this claim that colonization really did play a role in the early capitalism, but really Britain's take off. The slave plantation economy was producing all the cotton that ended up being so important for the British textile mills. And of course slavery plays a gigantic role in this whole process.

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