I think that's a good argument for why the industrial revolution started in the UK. I think it's a less good argument for why certain places are rich. Japan, for example, had heinously expe… (View Post)

You'll offend me: "Is that it? A measly two fingers?" (View Post)

Man, wait until you hear about Italy. (View Post)

I studied Seventeenth Century history at A Level, and it always felt like an extraordinary period: it started out with Elizabeth I still on the throne, and ended a (broadly) constitutional monarchy w… (View Post)

It would be better if it was log scale. (View Post)