The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause by Richard A. Easterlin, Timur Kuran, Julian L. Simon

The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause

Richard A. Easterlin, Timur Kuran, Julian L. Simon

240 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

informative reflective slow-paced
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One of Julian Simon's last works-in-progress--cut short just before completion by his death in early 1998--The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause explores the question of why human progress accelerated in Western Europe starting around 1750. Why did...

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