Latitude and World Order: Evidence from the Cross-Section of Human Stature
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Adam Tooze wrote recently about the challenge posed by economic statistics both to historical actors and to historians. The upshot is that all national economic statistics must be taken with a pinch of salt. This concern has prompted me to focus on human stature instead of per capita income and output per worker as the carrier of information on global polarization. What I have discovered has astonished me. The picture that emerges suggests that latitude was
Latitude and World Order: Evidence from the Cross-Section of Human Stature
Latitude and World Order: Evidence from the…
Latitude and World Order: Evidence from the Cross-Section of Human Stature
Adam Tooze wrote recently about the challenge posed by economic statistics both to historical actors and to historians. The upshot is that all national economic statistics must be taken with a pinch of salt. This concern has prompted me to focus on human stature instead of per capita income and output per worker as the carrier of information on global polarization. What I have discovered has astonished me. The picture that emerges suggests that latitude was