It's been a privilege working on this!
I read Pomeranz's "The Great Divergence" as a first-year master student at Pekiing University, and was awed. This was the kind of history I had always wanted: It wasn't about kings and courts.
It was about the forces that shape the everyday -- still today.
On Humans Podcast
In the first episode of our #economichistory podcast we talk to Kenneth Pomeranz who coined the term Great Divergence. He explains his theories on why Europe became the birthplace of industrial modernity.
🎧️ Listen at: buff.ly/tlzwdzo
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