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How the Industrial Revolution Changed the World: Interview with Economist Duncan Weldon

Tides of History

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The Industrial Revolution and Capitalism

The industrial revolution is a sustained move to better use of resources. It develops slowly over a few generations in britain and then spread across europe nd north america, into east asia. Techi and generally alse o, the associate other move to e the factory system. All of this, all these trappings of a more industrial, more urbanized, more recognizably modern economy. And increasingly, as the industrial revolution moves on to using capital and machine power more than you've used human power in production. This is the thing that's so fascinating about this period, is that when you look before this, you can find of those things at a whole bunch of

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