Hypothesis: above a certain min living standard, per-capita creativity is constant and big populations beat smaller ones by network effects
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Why did India and China lose out on the industrial revolution despite higher income and pop density at the time?
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Almost all attributable to Europe GDP *increase* (and relative fall of Asia) rather than colonial predation. Joel Mokyr is best
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Yes, new institutions were emerging at that point in Europe (see Fukuyama) that unleashed individual creativity.
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If I had to read one book by Fukuyama which one should it be?
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