I don't actually believe this myself, but has someone ever argued that one of the reasons why the middle east/Latin America/other developing countries have problems with democracy electing problematic leaders (communist, islamists, sui generis strongmen etc) is ...
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But I mean, how do we know all this good stuff didn't happen because some other cause made life better? What I like about Genghis is that there is no question of correlation or multiple causes. Bro tore shit up.
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Not in Japan tho I mean basically the problem is that big historical events are over-identified and there's no way to view a counterfactual Like, economists have no generally-accepted theory for the Industrial Revolution
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In the subsequent centuries Japan grew while China stagnated (falling behind Japan in GDP per capita around 1700); I assumed that was supposed to be (weak) evidence in support of the theory.
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Which theory?
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Reductio ad Genghis
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Yessssss. moar GENGHIS
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