
Bonus: Damon Binder on Economic History and the Future of Physics
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The Industrial Revolution
One of the biggest and most important questions about history like why did the Industrial Revolution happen when it did? What was the thing that was special about the place in time it happened? Was there anything special? You might have some naive view that it was going to happen at some point but even if it just happened to happen in the UK first it would be interesting to know why. Even if it was largely contingent and what was the core thing that changed that led to industrialisation?
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