A friendly review of @BCAppelbaum & @BrankoMilan but with this unfortunate line: “China is essentially going through a hugely accelerated version of the industrial revolution & the Gilded Age rolled into one.” #ModernizationTheoryNeverDies https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/02/the-rich-cant-get-richer-forever-can-they …
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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otoh... corrupt city machines did kinda run a ransomware level control on tycoons, and slavery was a similar kind of demographic dividend... I think the rhyme holds in the bass notes if you squint a bit at the lyrics
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“Stylized facts” vs, uh, real facts — this is one of the main contributions historians make: calling bullshit on facile Whig historiography. I’ve been beating this particular drum for 15 years, though by now am grimly resigned that I will die before modernization theory does.
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