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How Progress Spread Across the Globe

Why did the Industrial Revolution happen in Britain?
And answers to other related questions.
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How Progress spread across the globe (the series)
A Table of Contents with links to a series of articles on this topic.
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The Foreign Direct Investment Queue theory
A new theory on how poor nations become rich, and why they cannot do it all at once.
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Did the British Industrial Revolution occur in the 17th century?
A new study comes to conclusions that may surprise many
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Progress since 1991
The last 30+ years have been the greatest material progress in human history
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How Progress Shaped the Great Power Conflicts of the 20th Century
For the first time Liberal Democratic nations had superior military power to Authoritarian regimes
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How the Industrial Revolution upset the military balance of power
And it changed the incentives of European political elites
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Was the Industrial Revolution inevitable?
Or even likely?
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Why European settlers in New England and Middle Colonies did so well
Because not all European settlers were the same
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The historical significance of the Industrial Revolution in Britain
And why even economic historians often miss it.
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How European settlers spread progress
And laid the foundations for American progress
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The geography of American progress
From sea to shining sea... across the fruited plains
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