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Rationally Speaking #184 - Gregory Clark on "What caused the industrial revolution?"

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The Industrial Revolution in England

David Frum: It's easier to explain why somewhere in Northern Europe would have an industrial revolution than it is to specifically locate it in England. He says the UK had a population boom that magnified the effects of technological changes. The British exported by power and at the end of the bayonet the goods of the industrial revolution, he says.

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