An Ultra-Brief History of Living Standards, 10000BC-Present
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Here's what I see going on with polarization since the human career began. The orthodoxy has it that the Neolithic Revolution and the Industrial Revolution demarcate stadial social evolution. Both the Neolithic Revolution and the Industrial Revolution are either overrated or misdated. The former is dated to ten or twelve centuries before Christ and said to last until the birth of civilization; the latter to 1760-1830 Britain. If we buy the anthropometric evidence, the second is bunk. There is also good reason to believe that Andrew Sheratt is right on the money so that what really mattered in the former case was
An Ultra-Brief History of Living Standards, 10000BC-Present
An Ultra-Brief History of Living Standards…
An Ultra-Brief History of Living Standards, 10000BC-Present
Here's what I see going on with polarization since the human career began. The orthodoxy has it that the Neolithic Revolution and the Industrial Revolution demarcate stadial social evolution. Both the Neolithic Revolution and the Industrial Revolution are either overrated or misdated. The former is dated to ten or twelve centuries before Christ and said to last until the birth of civilization; the latter to 1760-1830 Britain. If we buy the anthropometric evidence, the second is bunk. There is also good reason to believe that Andrew Sheratt is right on the money so that what really mattered in the former case was