Published Friday, December 22, 2006 by Ralph Raico
A number of scholars concerned with the history of European growth have tended to converge on an interpretation highlighting certain distinctive factors, writes Ralph Raico. For the sake of convenience, we shall, therefore, speak of them, despite their differences, as forming a school of thought: the "European miracle" approach, where the "miracle" in question consists in a simple but momentous fact: It was in Europe — and the extensions of Europe, above all, America — that human beings first achieved per capita economic growth over a long period of time. The question is: why Europe?
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