The Hidden Cause of the Industrial Revolution (with Ben Southwood)
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Episode: The Hidden Cause of the Industrial Revolution (with Ben Southwood)
Pub date: 2026-08-17
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What if the Industrial Revolution wasn't sparked by the steam engine, but by a quiet legal revolution in how England handled property rights? Ben Southwood of Works in Progress argues that the Glorious Revolution of the 1680s unleashed British growth by empowering a Parliament composed of landowners who simplified their own tangled, inefficient…
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