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Why the Industrial Revolution Was in Great Britain

Posted By Barry Ritholtz On October 24, 2009 @ 12:33 pm In Video | Comments Disabled

Great Oxford talk economic historians Robert Allen, on why the Industrial Revolution actually occurred in Great Britain, and not France or the Netherlands or China:


Hat tip Paul Kedrosky [1]


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