为什么工业革命没有发生在中国?

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Why the Industrial Revolution didn’t happen in China

To economic historians like Joel Mokyr, there's nothing inevitable about the incredible wealth and health of the modern world. But for a spark in a little corner of Europe that ignited the Industrial Revolution - which spread incredible advances in technology and living standards first across the north Atlantic coast in the 1700 and 1800s and gradually around the world - we could all be living the nasty, brutish and short lives of our ancestors centuries before. Mokyr, who teaches at Northwestern University, dives into the mystery of how the world went from being poor to being so rich in just a few centuries in a forthcoming book, “A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy.” Drawing

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为什么科学需要人文科学?

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Why Science Needs the Humanities

Introduction Earlier this year, Kentucky governor Matt Bevin declared that state colleges and universities should educate more electrical engineers and fewer French literature majors: "All the people in the world that want to study French literature can do so, they are just not going to be subsidized by the taxpayer." Other politicians have sounded a similar refrain. Governor Patrick McCroy of North Carolina suggested basing funding on post-graduate employment rather than enrollment, or, as he put it rather crudely, "It's not based on butts in seats but on how many of those butts can get jobs." During the primary presidential campaign, Marco Rubio called for more welders and fewer philosophers.

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