Slouching Towards Utopia ft. Brad DeLong
The New Liberal Podcast
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Does the Industrial Revolution Ever Take Off in England?
If England doesn't successfully rest power away from the king and give it to parliament, does the industrial revolution ever take off in England? It's an open question, but yeah. That you know, you need to have a powerful state that can conquer the Atlantic. The British Night Watchmen's state of the 19th century is not a weak state at all, right? A weak state is Somalia in which you have only what you and your guards can hold on to.
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