John Nye
Quotes From
“Distributional Coalitions, the Industrial Revolution, and the Origins of Economic Growth in Britain” (2007)
- The regional fragmentation of premodern economies had not meant usually political competition, but rather constituted a balkanized system of local monopolies that impeded the workings of the national economy, protecting niches of inefficiency from competition.#
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A Post-Scarcity Society Would Probably Be Dystopian
In 1930 John Maynard Keynes published Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren. With this pamphlet, the hope of a post-scarcity society, where people no longer have to work for a living, moved from a utopian pipe dream to something with some amount of mainstream clout. More recently, advances in automation have . . .