Rationally Speaking #184 - Gregory Clark on "What caused the industrial revolution?"
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The Industrial Revolution and the Government
The government again in the industrial revolution period showed a remarkable solidity and lack of fear of traumatic changes. And so all of these new innovations inevitably provoked riots, attacks on the innovators, destruction of factories. But where are the government coupes? As soon as they could, it would bring in people who would hang the rioters. The interesting thing about the British government is that it was innovatively very bold.
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