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Why Europe’s Richest Regions Have Been Rich for Centuries
The Pre-Industrial Roots of Europe’s Modern Economic Core
Oct 6
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Michael Magoon
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How distinctive were Commercial societies in Pre-industrial Europe?
Using ChatGPT estimates to give quantitative evidence.
Aug 25
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Michael Magoon
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Why Northern Italy Lost Its Economic Leadership
How foreign conquest and political centralization ended the world's first Commercial society.
Aug 6
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Michael Magoon
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How Flanders copied the Northern Italian city-states
How Copying Turned Flanders into Europe's Leading Commercial Society
Jul 30
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Michael Magoon
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Why We Should Care About Pre-Industrial Economic Growth
How Commercial Societies Made the Industrial Revolution Possible
Jul 23
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Michael Magoon
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Why Germany’s Medieval Cities Lost Their Economic Dominance
Trade Geography, Dutch Competition, and the Destruction of Central Europe
Jun 1
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Michael Magoon
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Why Germany Had Trade-based Cities But Not a Commercial Society
How Geography and Decentralization Shaped the German Lands Before Industrialization
May 26
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Michael Magoon
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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
May 21
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Michael Magoon
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Did Classical Liberalism Create the Modern Economy?
Or Did It Codify the Practices of a Few Pioneering Commercial Societies?
Mar 12
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Michael Magoon
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The Venetian Arsenale and the Forgotten Industrial Capacity of Pre-Industrial Europe
How Commercial Societies Achieved Factory-Like Production Long Before the Industrial Revolution
Mar 2
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Michael Magoon
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How the Scottish Enlightenment Invented the Concept of the "Commercial Society"
Plus why modern scholarship abandoned this crucial concept, and why that was a mistake.
Feb 16
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Michael Magoon
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The Industrial Revolution Came from the Least Profitable Industries
Why Commercial Societies Rationally Avoided the Industries That Later Changed the World
Jan 19
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Michael Magoon
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