Adam Smith Part 4 The Wealth of Nations -Introduction

Adam Smith Part 4 The Wealth of Nations -Introduction

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. So how do you get from a subsistence economy where the great mass lives on the edge of famine and disaster? Funny you should ask, because Adam Smith desperately wanted this improvement for his native Scotland. Getting it would be like a miracle. He knew the mechanisms that led to prosperity and the obstacles that got in the way. And one day, in France he started a book, An Inquiry into The Nature and Cause...

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222. Early Modern Poverty, the Worst of it.

222. Early Modern Poverty, the Worst of it.

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Quoting Dante: “The disease of the starving, I mean hunger, is a pitiable affliction. Of human calamities hunger is certainly supreme. ...

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221. Changes in the Life of a Knight

221. Changes in the Life of a Knight

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We are trying to take a look at the life of a knight. A look at the life in full, stripped of idealizations and self righteous outrage o...

12 Elo 38min

220. The Civilizing Process; The Knights, Aggression and Torture

220. The Civilizing Process; The Knights, Aggression and Torture

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We are going to start with trivialities, then get into some serious differences between now and the medieval psyche. Around gross stuff,...

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219. The Civilizing Process

219. The Civilizing Process

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. It was probably while the brutal siege in Vienna went on, and the little boys and girls of the region were being sold into slavery, after...

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218. Erasmus and the Siege of Vienna

218. Erasmus and the Siege of Vienna

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. There are two stories here, their opposition is part of a theme. Erasmus, the great Erasmus , Erasmus of Rotterdam was even more a prod...

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217. How to Tear the West Apart

217. How to Tear the West Apart

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. A miner’s son, decided one day, to nail 95 thesis to the door of All Saints Church in Wittenberg in the year of our lord 1517. It seems ...

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216.  1453, Before Humanism and the Reformation

216. 1453, Before Humanism and the Reformation

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We explore the roots of Humanism and the Reformation. Taking a long look at the Devotio Moderna, the Brethren of the Common Life. These...

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215. Exploring the Causes of the Miracle

215. Exploring the Causes of the Miracle

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. This episode is just a little introduction to the theories of the causes of the industrial revolution as of right now. We look at the Sh...

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