Hanging with History
The first season focuses on the origins of the Industrial Revolution or the Great Enrichment, we go deep into history to gain enough background knowledge to actually understand the various theories of the origins of the Great Enrichment. Eventually we learn that we also need to know how the miracle was consolidated, as the many other close approaches to the Industrial Revolution failed.A kwirky style, but intellectually ambitious with the goal of understanding history well enough to understand the miracle that happened that one time. It's gonna be a long series.
Hanging with History
Adam Smith Part 2; Morality Unlike Ours
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Harald Hansen
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Season 1
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Episode 63
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Private Vices are public virtues, so says Mandeville in the Fable of the Bees. No, David Hume argues, the frame is wrong. Strong boundaries of vice and virtue cannot be drawn in consumer behavior.
This is our introduction to the problem of leaving medieval morality behind us. The Church did not place the economic advancement of the poor high up the list of concerns and even saw it as a great danger. How did we ever escape this kind of thinking?