Comments on: The Rise of the West http://archive.mises.org/16182/the-rise-of-the-west/ Proceeding Ever More Boldly Against Evil Tue, 21 May 2013 04:23:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Freedom Fighter http://archive.mises.org/16182/the-rise-of-the-west/comment-page-1/#comment-767609 Freedom Fighter Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:06:32 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=16182#comment-767609 “Throughout almost the entire span of human history, material privation and chronic insecurity were the norm.”

Wow, my own life summarized in one sentence, amazing.

]]> By: newson http://archive.mises.org/16182/the-rise-of-the-west/comment-page-1/#comment-767527 newson Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:30:29 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=16182#comment-767527 all of the factors higgs lists are necessary but not sufficient to explain the anomaly of western development. hoppe fills in the missing piece in the jigsaw, but only cursorily. macdonald does so in more depth.
http://mises.org/media/4691/Necessary-and-Sufficient-Causes-of-the-Industrial-Revolution-Some-Critical-Remarks-on-Mises-and-His-Explanation
http://is.gd/7FLnhA

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