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cthulu2016

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2. The beginning of modern economics

Reply to The Magistrate (Reply #1)

Thu May 10, 2012, 11:44 AM

May 2012

Before the catastrophic depopulation of Europe human beings were a surplus commodity. Wage inflation was almost impossible.

Better to have been a laborer in London in 1400 than in 1800 when urbanization and industrialization recreated the ancient formula of human surplus and superfluousness.

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