Post-Menshevik

Developing countries experienced peak population growth rates twice as high as those of early-industrializing nations. From 1950 and 1990, the median age in most of the Global South barely budged, meaning dependency ratios stayed high, stifling capital accumulation for 50 years.

Acemoglu's theory is that colonies that Europeans had a hard time settling developed more extractive institutions which led to these former colonies being poorer today. The exact opposite seems to be the case: colonies with higher mortality rates of settlers had lower taxes and…

Zarathushtra was likely a title which means camel herder btw. Iranians developed a sense of the garden as a paradise precisely because they lived in a desert which has to be made habitable with qanats around oasis

The one time the entire Mexican Civil War in 1860 that the Conservatives seemed poised to take Veracruz, which would probably have spelled the end of the Liberal cause, the U.S. navy intervened both without orders and against international law to help liberals out

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TIL, Western China is richer than Southern India

Esta es el área de operaciones de los comanches en el mismo periodo

The newly born Mexican Republic was weak, with unsustainable fiscal positions. For its defense, a very important concern at the time given Spanish attempts of reconquest and the threats from the US and the northern nomads, it had to rely on debt.

Starvation and warfare decimated Comanche numbers, reducing them to about 8000 by 1870. They began relying on the U.S. government for rations, giving the U.S. much power over them.

A magnificent example of the European culture we're told doesn't exist. Touches my heart every single time.

Major reason that Spain was formed from Aragon + Castile instead of Portugal + Castile is that while in both cases the respective claimants and their foreign king husbands were too closely related to be married, Aragon’s forged documents while Portugal’s tried to get real waiver

Young adults in continental Western Europe don’t report as poor mental health as young adults in the Anglosphere. Some evidence for it being due to country-specific factors, and against it being due to the technological zeitgeist.

(3) Because of the preceding, by the paper’s OWN results, educational expansion has NOT contributed to income convergence *between* countries at all!!! ( although educational expansion contributed to the reduction of global interpersonal inequality )

🧵 I have no input into American policy, but I’m increasingly suspecting that our elites have decided to just concede to China. Multiple lines of evidence for this:

Listing Ankara before Istanbul is genuinely a very funny bit. You have to be extremely deep into Turkish stuff to even think that way. It's insane.

Those rates for Turkey are probably more inaccurate than a survey on penis length.

If you were wondering if the UK had free speech:

Cut both ways. Calhoun wanted Polk to send a "humanitarian intervention" [sic] to Yucatán in 1848 to protect the "white" settlers from Maya in the ongoing Caste War. Polk nixed it. Too, Mexicans' Catholicism was as objectionable to most Americans as their race, if not moreso.