The Birth of Modern Prosperity, Part II: Laboratories of the New Era (with Brad DeLong)

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For millenia, patriarchy, population growth, and extractive elites made the world a bleak place for most humans. But there are good news, too: everything changed around 1870. And the changed happened due to the taming of the genius of people like Nikolai Tesla.

So runs the argument my guest today, Brad DeLong. I will let him explain it to you. You can either listen to the episode here, or read some highlights and commentary at Onhumans.Substack.com/

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The Birth of Modern Prosperity, Part II: Laboratories of the New Era (with Brad DeLong)

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The Birth of Modern Prosperity, Part II: Laboratories of the New Era (with Brad DeLong)