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Despite starting industrialization later than England and lacking a skilled workforce in the 17th century, Scotland took the lead by the 19th century. The Enlightenment, energy abundance, trade, and population growth may have played key roles in this transformation. (Cambridge, January 2026)

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u/yonkon — 17 hours ago
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Hit hard by loans made to energy companies and Latin America in the 1980s, Continental Illinois Bank held $2.3 billion in non-performing loans by early 1984. The systemic risk to its failure led to the bank's rescue by the federal government. (Tontine Coffee-House, May 2026)

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u/yonkon — 1 day ago
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After WWII, battlefield injuries reduced the lifetime employment of veterans in West Germany by about one year. Many displaced workers who settled in West Germany, especially women, never returned to employment. (S. Braun, J. Stuhler, April 2026)

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u/yonkon — 3 days ago
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General Motors first introduced robots in its manufacturing process in the 1970s. In the 1980s, GM partnered with Japan’s FANUC to build and adopt industrial robots. But technological limitations and steep learning curve slowed down production and contributed to losses (Asianometry, May 2026)

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u/yonkon — 4 days ago
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Women entrepreneurs were integral to Glasgow's 19th-century economy, making up 12–15% of sole traders. They were represented most strongly in key sectors for urban expansion like food sales and retail. (G. Acheson, G. Newton, L. Perriton, April 2026)

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u/yonkon — 5 days ago
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The end of slavery in 1888 coincided with the first sustained rise in Brazilian GDP per capita, suggesting a tight link between the end of coerced labor and the onset of modern growth. (CEPR, April 2026)

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u/yonkon — 6 days ago
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Oklahoma’s Penn Square Bank dove into oil and gas lending starting from around 1978. After oil prices began to fall in the early 1980s, rising delinquencies and unperforming loans led to the bank’s failure in 1982. (Tontine Coffee-House, May 2026)

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u/yonkon — 7 days ago
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American economic historians generally believe that U.S. modern economic growth began before 1840 – but lack of statistical data make this difficult to study. The use of postal activity data may provide a vehicle to study U.S. growth between 1817 and 1840 (P. Rhode, April 2026)

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u/yonkon — 8 days ago
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A team of researchers are connecting individual records across seven censuses in England and Wales between 1851 and 1921 – over 200 million records. This first ever full set of links will give an unprecedented, population-scale view of life over this period of immense change. (Cambridge, May 2026)

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u/yonkon — 9 days ago
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Sweden experienced an export boom at the start of WWI and then a contraction. Despite the economic difficulties, Stockholm’s stock exchange experienced trade volumes in 1918 that would not be reached again in real terms until 1980 (Tontine Coffee-House, May 2026)

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u/yonkon — 10 days ago
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Premodern English towns protected water supplies and regulated waste disposal. Positive health outcomes also came from behavioral changes which were independent of major infrastructural improvements. (Long Run, May 2026)

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u/yonkon — 11 days ago
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In the 1960s, Iran initiated land redistribution and mass education. Although land was transferred exclusively to male cultivators and women received fewer education opportunities from the campaign, these initiatives still expanded women’s access to education and occupation. (LSE, April 2026)

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u/yonkon — 13 days ago
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To address the need for payment instruments, merchants in 17th century Japan began issuing their own paper money. Local governments sometimes encouraged their circulation by setting exchange rates for local paper notes and accepted taxes in them (Tontine Coffee-House, April 2026)

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u/yonkon — 14 days ago
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The passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act rapidly increased the wages of Southern Black men in the 1970s. Political representation gained through the new law played a significant role in the implementation of wage-enhancing labor market policies. (A. Aneja, C. Avenancio-Leon, September 2019)

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u/yonkon — 15 days ago
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Obituary: Robert Skidelsky was a leading authority on the life and work of John Maynard Keynes. He was active in British politics but remained too much of a maverick to be a successful politician. (Guardian, April 2026)

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u/yonkon — 16 days ago
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Wheeled vehicles existed for 5,000 years before someone thought of running a bus service. Polymath Blaise Pascal established the first transportation service with fixed intracity routes, fixed fares, fixed points for boarding and alighting in Paris in 1662. (Works in Progress, April 2026)

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u/yonkon — 17 days ago