Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedJohn Nye: belief
21 Nov 2018 Conversations with Tyler John Nye on Revisionist Economic History and Having Too Many Hobbies
“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.”
— John Nye
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- John Nye
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- 21 Nov 2018
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…Do you view American 19th century history as having had a resource bounty or a resource curse? 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?…
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