The Genetic Evolution of the Human Race and Its Consequences for the Industrial Revolution
New genomic evidence for Clark’s theory
Why did the Industrial Revolution happen when and where it did?
The title of this blog post echoes a famous line about the Industrial Revolution, but here we turn it upside down.
Economic historians have offered a familiar menu of explanations:
cheap coal and high wages, better institutions, Enlightenment culture and science, trade and empire, and so on.
In…
