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73 For most of history the world’s largest economy was not in Europe or America but in the East: China still accounted for roughly a third of global output as late as 1820, until the Industrial Revolution let Western nations pull decisively ahead over the following century

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Mal James @ Silicon Canals 2 place · today 09:00 EDT

For most of history the world’s largest economy was not in Europe or America but in the East: China still accounted for roughly a third of global output as late as 1820, until the Industrial Revolution let Western nations pull decisively ahead over the following century

The West's economic dominance is surprisingly recent—a mere century of advantage after millennia of Eastern superiority.

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