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. 2019 Nov 20:42:e193.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X19000281.

What motivated the Industrial Revolution: England's libertarian culture or affluence per se?

Scott Atran  1
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What motivated the Industrial Revolution: England's libertarian culture or affluence per se?

Scott Atran. Behav Brain Sci. .

Abstract

What impelled the Industrial Revolution's spectacular economic growth? Life History Theory, Baumard argues, explains how England's world-supreme affluence psychologically fostered innovation; moreover, wherever similar affluence abounds, a "civilizing process" bringing enlightenment and democracy is apt to evolve. Baumard insightfully analyzes a "constellation of affluence" but proffers somewhat whiggish history given England's prior and unique proto-capitalist culture of economic liberty and individualism.

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