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Chapter 16 of The Bourgeois Revaluation:
A Change in Talk Made the Modern World

May 17th, 2010

Let’s see where we’ve gotten. Once upon a time a great change occurred, unique for a while to Europe, especially after 1600 in the lands around the North Sea, and most especially in Holland and then in Britain. The change had been foreshadowed in the Hansa towns such as Lübeck and Bergen and Dantzig, and (more…)

Chapter 18 of The Bourgeois Revaluation:
It Led to a Hockey Stick of Growth

June 9th, 2010

It had never happened before. In 1798 Robert Malthus (1766-1834), an Anglican clergyman irritated by the extravagant and anti-clerical claims of the French revolutionaries and their British friends that a new day had dawned, explained for the first time why the enrichment of the poor had not yet happened. He said in his great book (more…)


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