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Slouching Towards Utopia?: The Economic History of the Long Twentieth Century
Introduction
- The Multi-Millennial Perspective
- The Rough, Quantitative Perspective
- Human evolution and human sociability
- Gift exchange, market economies, lineages, and other control devices
- The long Agrarian Age: plow, sword, book, Malthus, and technology
- Gunpowder empires and commercial revolution
- Why is there even a western European civilization in the first place?
- Integrated social power--political, maritime, commercial, religious, technological--Venice and Genoa--and seaborne empires
- Guns, germs, and steel
- Industrial Revolution
- Exceptional Britain
- The acceleration of growth in the enlightenment
- The spread and development of British industrial technologies
- Modern Economic Growth
- Other roads to Modern Economic Growth?
- Our destiny--Malthus banished or delayed, and where is the Great Filter?
Housekeeping:
