Great Divergence
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The Great Divergence or European miracle is the socioeconomic shift in which Western Europe along with former settler colonies in Northern America and Australasia overcame pre-modern growth constraint
The Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, begun in 1163 and largely completed by 1260
Detail of a portrait of Cardinal Hugh of Saint-Cher (wearing spectacles), painted by Tommaso da Modena in 1352
The distribution of coal deposits shaped industrial development in Britain.
Courtyard of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, circa 1670
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous is a 2020 book by Harvard University professor Joseph Henrich that aims to explain history an
Great Divergence
…defeat the once victorious Ottoman armies?" ... "Because they have laws and rules invented by reason." Anthropologist Joseph Henrich argues in his book The WEIRDest People in the World (where "WEIRD" is an acronym and the "I" stands for "industrialized") that the Catholic Church's increasingly strict, and increasingly harshly enforced…
The WEIR Dest People in the World cover