I didn’t realise you were an Economic Historian. You might find this interesting, if you haven’t seen it already:
200 Years of Progress. (Illustrated in four minutes.)
I didn’t realise you were an Economic Historian. You might find this interesting, if you haven’t seen it already:
200 Years of Progress. (Illustrated in four minutes.)
Boadicea's Chariot 
Thanks Bravo.
I’ll get back to this later – overslept and I’m going out shortly. 🙂
I love that sort of demonstration with animated statistics graphically displayed. I have seen something like it before. Not sure if it was the same bloke, but it was in front of an audience. I believe that the rapid growth in health and wealth is referred to as a Darwinian Bloom, though I cannot find any references to it on Google. The trouble with blooms is that they die!
Thanks for this Bravo. It was fascinating and far more interesting than just a page of statistics!
They certainly do if they’re not fertilised properly. And what fertilises this particular bloom? Cheap and abundant energy, which correlates nicely with GDP per head and average income. Take that away, as the Watermelons would have it with their whacky windmills, and it’s back to the nasty, brutal and short lives that were the lot of mos tof our ancestors.
My apologies, you’re welcome, Boa, and I should have linked to the site where someone first put it up:
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/