In western economic history, living standards appear to have had three "supercycles" of rise and fall of economic activity over the past 4,000 years.
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It appears to be the case that the foremost causal factor in social and economy development is democracy

January 2023

Should patents exist? It appears that they do, although, granting a monopoly of 20 years to new technologies might be too much.
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November 2022

The modern welfare state is what happens when you mix Ghenghis-Khan with Classical Athens
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Musk's purchase of Twitter suggests that society might need virtual public squares besides private social media sites
Answer: historical contingency that Latin's influence could be preserved in Western Europe while most Greek speaking regions of antiquity the local…
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September 2022

Ancient economic history can be summarized by: Fast growth from 800 BC to 300 BC, slow growth from 300 BC to around 1 AD, negative growth from 1 AD to…
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Countries in the "middle income trap" are there for specific reasons
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August 2022

Not only was the Classical Greek world likely more prosperous than the Roman world but also it was more egalitarian
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July 2022

We have to stop thinking that crude estimates of a platonic concept we call GDP are factual information
"The Great Divergence" gets it backwards: Different civilizations which never had convergent trajectories have converged in recent centuries
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June 2022

The evidence appears to suggest that the politically decentralized Classical Greek world was substantially wealthier than the centralized Roman Empire
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