Welcome to the first week of this global development series exploring how progress has been made against global poverty and examining key factors that have driven change over the last two centuries.
Learning from history is very important. When looking at how economies have developed over time, it’s also important to remember that much of that wealth was gained through force, conflict, and drawing borders without considering the people involved.
These actions often came from outsiders who didn’t have a real stake in the land but interfered with other nations’ affairs. Without recognizing these parts of history, our understanding isn’t complete.
This pattern of invasion for acquiring assets continues and we still have not found solutions to this pertinent issue.
Have you checked out How World Became Rich? It’s a detail but concise book which covers many of these topics.
A pod on it here: https://www.thendobetter.com/investing/2022/10/9/mark-koyama-how-the-world-became-rich-economic-history-intangibles-culture-progress-podcast
But the book itself while not on complete global dev - is quite a good primer for many of these themes and is readable.
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This is amazing and very valuable. Many thanks!
Thank you for a well-written article.
Learning from history is very important. When looking at how economies have developed over time, it’s also important to remember that much of that wealth was gained through force, conflict, and drawing borders without considering the people involved.
These actions often came from outsiders who didn’t have a real stake in the land but interfered with other nations’ affairs. Without recognizing these parts of history, our understanding isn’t complete.
This pattern of invasion for acquiring assets continues and we still have not found solutions to this pertinent issue.
There is more written about that in week 3 - Democracy, Institutions and Government - https://gdea.substack.com/p/week-3-democracy-institutions-and
I loved the first session! Would love to discuss some of it more