Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: belief
21 Nov 2018 Conversations with Tyler John Nye on Revisionist Economic History and Having Too Many Hobbies
“If we think about the First Industrial Revolution in Britain, many factors driving that revolution have been cited: ideology, coal, population growth in demographics, the building of a culture of science and engineering, and so on.”
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- 21 Nov 2018
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…I think the evidence is strong there — again, this is not my area — but the evidence is that that is one case in which the United States had institutions that were good enough to take advantage of the resource bounty. If we think about the First Industrial Revolution in Britain, many factors driving that revolution have been cited: ideology, coal, population growth in demographics, the building of a culture of science and engineering, and so on. What’s the underrated factor behind the First Industrial Revolution? Luck?…
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