Paul Krugman

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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

It was insane to interrupt this progress with the basically pointless horror of World War I — but that's what happened. But as Brad points out, there had already been a kind of dress rehearsal for this madness: the Boer War 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 3, 2022

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Much of the early part of the book is taken up with the extraordinary economic progress from 1870 to 1914, during which he argues the world finally broke free from the Malthusian trap that had kept living standards roughly unchanged since the days of ancient Sumer 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 3, 2022

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Important not to retrocast this war as a preemptive strike against apartheid; the Brits were every bit as racist as the Boers. It was instead a war of choice by a power that was generally happy to let white people elsewhere oppress indigenous populations 6/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 3, 2022