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Davis Kedrosky
Personal blog · daviskedrosky.substack.comeconomicshistory
Davis Kedrosky writes Great Transformations, a personal blog at daviskedrosky.substack.com about economics and history. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Davis Kedrosky's Substack for economic history on material progress, such as a study of steam power per worker in England during the Industrial Revolution.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Irregular essays on the economic history of the early modern world.
What Hacker News says?
No, the steam engine came after the industrial revolution was over.[1] In 1840 the amount of steam power per worker in England was the same as in 1750. Total horsepower from steam only just matched water power in 1830. And that was in the country using the most steam by far. 1. https://daviskedrosky.substack.com/p/a-study-in-steam I recommend Dr. Kedrosky's blog in general, if you are interested in material progress.
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on “Why no Roman industrial revolution?”Submitted Was the Industrial Revolution the Industrial Revolution? as a story · 63 points
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