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The Hanseatic League: Northern Europe’s First Network of Commercial Societies
How Geography, Trade, and Decentralized Cities Built a Pre-Industrial Commercial System
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Michael Magoon
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Evidence for progress: Global poverty rates
Contrary to the expectation of those who are skeptical of progress, poverty rates are falling throughout the world.
Published on From Poverty to Progress
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May 20
Rethinking the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the Origins of Economic Growth
Why England’s Political Revolution Followed, Rather Than Caused, Its Economic Transformation
May 19
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Michael Magoon
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How Geography Shaped Germany’s Path to Industrialization
How geographic constraints delayed industrialization, and why external innovation made it possible
May 18
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Michael Magoon
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Understanding Class in American society
Most discussions of Class are not useful
Published on From Poverty to Progress
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May 15
Why Developing Countries Struggle to Build Advanced Industries
How a popular theory of industrial development explains part of the story, and what it leaves out
May 14
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Michael Magoon
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Progress Studies Needs Synthesis, Not Skepticism
Complexity and humility do not eliminate the need for synthesis
May 13
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Michael Magoon
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The East Asian Model of Economic Development
A Second Path to Progress Alongside the Western Model of Decentralized Discovery
May 12
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Michael Magoon
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Why Prussia and later Germany Built the World’s Most Effective Army
How a vulnerable state created the institutions that still shape modern armies today
May 11
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Michael Magoon
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Social Mobility vs. Upward Mobility
And why Upward Mobility is far more important
Published on From Poverty to Progress
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May 8
How Belgium transformed from poverty to progress
The First Successful Industrialization Outside Britain
May 7
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Michael Magoon
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Evidence for progress: UN Human Development Index
The UN HDI, the most widely-used metric from measuring progress in developing countries shows remarkable progress since 1990.
Published on From Poverty to Progress
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May 6
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