Analysis argues England's Glorious Revolution sparked the Industrial Revolution by overriding property rights and dismantling vetocracy

@bswud The canal maps are really remarkable.

@bswud Lots of action in this chart, wow!

@bswud The Swiss have always been appreciators of good roads:

@hutontiber 3) I disagree with that characterisation. I’m talking about land readjustment postWW2 after externally imposed land reform.

@bswud All WiP pieces are, on some level, about land readjustment.

@bswud This article is what changed my mind about "King Billy and the Dutchcucks"

@bswud Alternative title: how a Dutch invasion made England rich

Maybe the Netherlands should invade more countries!

@johnrmyers Yes, I think you're right. But I (cheekily) picked a wording that I thought would generate MAXIMUM attention so that people would be curious to read my article.

@Aria_Babu Land readjustment is the general Platonic form underlying all successful policy reforms

@bswud *half a millenium* of economic stagnation!

@pastasnack_e Thanks, the spice islands are crying now

@bswud my personal preference would, of course, have been for James II to establish a Catholic absolutist state, but I will accept the crushing of the NIMBYs as a consolation prize

@bswud Very excited to read this

@58mbr Thank you... Sam? I don't think this is actually Sam, is it!

@Simon__Grimm Ha ha ha. Sadly they are much better at building them than us now

@bswud Some good points but also lots of times where you miss the forest for the trees 1900s Russia includes all the rich black earth of the eurasian steppe, so is massively fertile. The punjab benefits from mass irrigation. 17th century europe has global trade kicking off

@bswud Very interesting. I wonder if "blockers" would be more precise than "NIMBYs"?

@bswud What an amazing post Ben. You are a credit to Works in Progress, Stripe, and your country

@edwest Tell me what you think!

@bswud Looking forward to reading this, Ben!