A longer term perspective reminds me that we're not seeing China's rise, but its return to global pre-eminencepic.twitter.com/EoLNpYQ1jV
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i wouldn't say 'bad' graph. one certainly needs to be aware that the X axis isn't proportional. but it helpfully shows recent yrs in detail
It irons out industrial revolution as a big change and makes it look like econ history a long slow battle between countries for a static pie
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ah, yes, focuses on percentages of GDP not total levels. well, i don't think any method is 'bad' per se, just strengths & limitations.
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tricky to show a nuanced picture of everything, all over the world, for 2000 years, in one picture.
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