Quote by Jared Diamond

Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?

— Jared Diamond

“nineteenth century economic development was "the development of continents instead of coast lines."98”

— Thomas Sowell

“The great inequality of the modern world that emerged in the nineteenth century was caused by the uneven dissemination of industrial technologies and manufacturing…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“The idea was that inequalities increase in the early phases of industrialization, because only a minority is prepared to benefit from the new wealth…

— Thomas Piketty

“The institutional dynamics we have described ultimately determined which countries took advantage of the major opportunities present in the nineteenth century onward and which…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“We start by going back 2,000 years. There were successful civilizations in Rome, China and later in western Europe. These leading countries expanded by…

— Edward A. Hudson

“The three topics of this book - technological change, education, and inequality - are intricately related in a kind of 'race.' During the first…

— Claudia Goldin

“life in western Europe in 1500 was very different from what it had been even 50 years earlier.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

“more and better resources going into agriculture allowed food production to increase over the centuries. GDP increased, although along an irregular path, at an…

— Edward A. Hudson

What if miliseconds influence centuries?

— Robert Cowley

“It is not a leap to suggest that all of the distinctive advances made between 1500 and today, for better or worse, were directly…

— Eric Robert Morse

“The countries of northern Europe have been richer than those of the south for several centuries. The north industrialised earlier than the south and…

— Tim Marshall