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The Importance of Competence in the Industrial Revolution
There are examples of strong competence on the part of inventors in Britain. And so this suggests a general factor of competence, but couldn't those two just be causally related and therefore not require some general factor explanation? Another kind of accident factor that I should mention here is that a country like France actually had significant numbers of innovations in the Industrial Revolution period. But they didn't have big economic consequences.