I was actually looking for numbers I was looking for you know incomes wages salaries prices if you really don't know your topic well you will be revealed. Jane Austen is going giving us reasonable numbers because otherwise people at that time would have found that quite extraordinary very wrong so that's was my argument and I was actually into the numbers. The level of commercialization and the fact of capitalism has been much greater in obviously 19th century Europe than it was in more agricultural societies like Russia or Africa or Asia and so onSo this is by the way I was not reading much I'm not reading much fiction these days but I took a book that I read before which is also very revealing it's called
Author and economist Branko Milanovic of CUNY talks about the big questions in economics with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Milanovic argues that the Nobel Prize Committee is missing an opportunity to encourage more ambitious work by awarding the prize to economists tackling questions like the rise of China's economy and other challenging but crucial areas of scholarship. In the conversation, he lays out what those questions might be and discusses what we know and don't know in these areas.