Kyle Harper on the Roman Industrial Revolution

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Alert to Maximum Progress Readers: There is a job opening available with the amazing team at the Institute for Progress! You should apply! Read more about the role here.The latest episode of the Dwarkesh Podcast with historian Kyle Harper covers, among other things, the conspicuous lack of a Roman Industrial Revolution. This is the subject of my most popular post so I listened with heightened interest to their discussion.Dwarkesh contextualizes the question well. Rome was incredibly advanced in ...

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