To (over)simplify, the emergence from the Dark Ages was a long, bloody experiment in social organization. Finally, in the century or so between the Glorious Revolution and the publication of The Wealth of Nations, Europeans started getting things right.
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1 Current // Mar 5, 2009 at 4:35 pm
The Thomas Babington MacAulay theory of history. It has a lot to recommend it. But it can’t really be the whole story.
2 MikeinAppalachia // Mar 5, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Close enough?
3 dearieme // Mar 6, 2009 at 1:22 pm
The period of getting it right surely starts with the Reformation?
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