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Investment lessons from the last 1000 years

The average rate of growth in expansion periods after the Industrial Revolution was lower than the average rate preceding it.
Claire McCombe
NEW studies of the performance of the world economy over the last millennium further burnish the role of institutions, both formal (parliaments, judiciaries, central banks, social safety nets and scho[...]

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