The 6 Killer Apps of Prosperity

The 6 Killer Apps of Prosperity

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The 6 Killer Apps of Prosperity

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  1. 1 Intro
  2. 2 It wasn't just economic ...
  3. 3 Rasselas's question
  4. 4 Muteferrika's answer
  5. 5 It's not geography
  6. 6 It's not national character
  7. 7 It's ideas and institutions
  8. 8 Smith On China
  9. 9 The West's killer apps
  10. 10 Competition ...
  11. 11 versus uniformity
  12. 12 The Scientific Revolution
  13. 13 versus theocracy
  14. 14 John Locke's property rights
  15. 15 Modern medicine
  16. 16 Versus sorcery
  17. 17 The consumer society
  18. 18 versus bare necessities
  19. 19 versus the leisure preference
  20. 20 Where's the science now?
  21. 21 Because the killer apps can be downloaded
  22. 22 Is the West deleting its own apps?
  23. 23 Can Africa get the sequence right?
  24. 24 Can China do without App 3?
  25. 25 (Western) Civilization defined
  26. 26 Western decline isn't inevitable
  27. 27 But the Great Divergence is over, folks

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