How did Europe become the richest part of the world? | Aeon Essays
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In a time of great powers and empires, just one region of the world experienced extraordinary economic growth. How?

Really tired of "Historians" talking about the growth of wealth in europe and fail to even mention the extreme exploitation of working people at home and mass genocides and robbery abroad.

  • princeofsin [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    It was rather what is known as a classical emergent property, a complex and unintended outcome of simpler interactions on the whole. The modern European economic miracle was the result of contingent institutional outcomes. It was neither designed nor planned. But it happened, and once it began, it generated a self-reinforcing dynamic of economic progress that made knowledge-driven growth both possible and sustainable.

    :doubt: