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What motivated the Industrial Revolution: England's libertarian culture or affluence per se?
1The Changing Character of War Centre, Pembroke College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 1DW, United Kingdom. satran@umich.edu https://artisinternational.org/scott-atran/.
Abstract:
What impelled the Industrial Revolution's spectacular economic growth? Life History Theory, Baumard argues, explains how England's world-supreme affluence psychologically fostered innovation; moreover, wherever similar affluence abounds, a "civilizing process" bringing enlightenment and democracy is apt to evolve. Baumard insightfully analyzes a "constellation of affluence" but proffers somewhat whiggish history given England's prior and unique proto-capitalist culture of economic liberty and individualism.
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