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Does The 1619 Project Have Anything To Teach Us?

The Soho Forum Debates

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The Opportunistic Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln

There is no single industry that explains industrialization across world history. The South had become so path dependent on cotton, it was misusing and misallocating land. When they transferred crop production to other crops, they grew better in some regions than after the Civil War. We asked Phil what's the cost there? It had created dependency, so we asked what's the opportunity cost there? So that's when you can ask Phil your questions.

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