The State and the Industrial Revolution, Part 2

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We finish up the crime issues, the bloody codes, private prosecution of crime, transportation to Australia, that we began last episode. Then we move into the consequences of the Glorious Revolution, legitimacy and the changing role of Parliament, and Parliament as a meta institution. We get a flavor of Joel Mokyr's coverage of intellectual property rights, with views expressed in favor of the patent system by Goethe, ...