Progress was not Inevitable or Predictable

A Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 38 “The Causes were Local, Temporary, and Unpredictable”

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People have a tendency to explain how we got where we are in history as if it was an inevitable process, but in this chapter, Dr. McCloskey is advancing the idea the cultural changes that allowed the Great Enrichment to take…