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Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World

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The Importance of Genetic Differences in Industrialization

Japan went from being a semi colonized power to becoming a colonial power itself under Meiji. It had open labor markets, government investment and basically allowed foreign capital to come in. The best way to get rich historically for countries when there are already other rich countries is to take all capital from the from the rich countries. And so you across East Asia and across parts of Africa, like Botswana and to a smaller extent South Africa and Nigeria,.

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