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Bonus: Damon Binder on Economic History and the Future of Physics
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What's the Story Behind the Industrial Revolution?
The Catholic Church is one plausible part of this picture. Maybe Europe is geographically more suited to being divided. There's a long history of states basically preventing trade or making trade very hard. And maintaining power and traders traditionally have been treated with hostility by lots of agricultural societies. So you're going to get some areas where people are successfully able to set up new technologies, try new things.
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