Why did Ancient Rome not industrialise and achieve growth as Europe did later?
Because Slavery suggests @MarkKoyamahttps://medium.com/@MarkKoyama/the-end-of-the-past-2f028cb970ed …
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This is a common explanation, but another missing ingredient that may have been more important was a new kind of civil order.
More precisely, private citizens without political power being able to keep fortunes they made. E.g. Russia is barely there now.
