An Illustrated Guide to European Living Standards in the Really Long Run
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Part of the problem with modern scholarly discourses on global polarization is that they get the explanandum wrong. Contrary to the emplotment of modern economic historians, global polarization did not begin with the Industrial Revolution. More precisely, the latitudinal gradient in living standards became steeper in the century after 1870 as high latitude nations pulled away from low latitude nations. But the gradient already existed before the nineteenth century. When did it come into existence? I will show that it has always existed; that high latitudes have been favored for at least forty thousand years.
An Illustrated Guide to European Living Standards in the Really Long Run
An Illustrated Guide to European Living…
An Illustrated Guide to European Living Standards in the Really Long Run
Part of the problem with modern scholarly discourses on global polarization is that they get the explanandum wrong. Contrary to the emplotment of modern economic historians, global polarization did not begin with the Industrial Revolution. More precisely, the latitudinal gradient in living standards became steeper in the century after 1870 as high latitude nations pulled away from low latitude nations. But the gradient already existed before the nineteenth century. When did it come into existence? I will show that it has always existed; that high latitudes have been favored for at least forty thousand years.