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Nine centuries of cultural change and the productivity of ideas

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Economic historians have long placed culture at the centre of the rise of the West, but have lacked a measure of culture spanning the emergence of modern growth. Using 23,064 historical books, this column constructs an ‘innovation wedge’ th…

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