Rationally Speaking #184 - Gregory Clark on "What caused the industrial revolution?"
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The Importance of Data in Testing Causal Theories of the Industrial Revolution
I share your pessimism in general about our ability to definitively pin down the one cause of this one off event that we can't repeat with different parameters changed. But it seems like we still might be able to get a little bit more clarity in testing these theories just in the form of looking at new data. So I guess I'm wondering if there's data that you think we could still collect or that we haven't tested these theories on yet that would help us, help us disambiguate between them.
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