Daron Acemoglu on Why Nations Fail
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The Conquest of Peru by Prescott
i think it's a consensus that the dominant innovations did come from england, if i remember correctly. And what your book lays bare in a very brutal and an important way is how badly bad it isn't does ndo justice to it how brutally many of the colonizers treated the native people. In the casef the spanish and enlightened america, ah, just a brutal serfdom and slavery and an extractive relationship. And then you contrast with the british relationship in north america. North versus south America turned out very differently decades and then centuries later. It was nothing like what was happening in latin america. They couldn't do that because there were no
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