Hanging with History
The first season focuses on the origins of the Industrial Revolution or the Great Enrichment, we go deep into history to gain enough background knowledge to actually understand the various theories of the origins of the Great Enrichment. Eventually we learn that we also need to know how the miracle was consolidated, as the many other close approaches to the Industrial Revolution failed.A kwirky style, but intellectually ambitious with the goal of understanding history well enough to understand the miracle that happened that one time. It's gonna be a long series.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 186
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
66. Adam Smith Part 5, The Wealth of Nations continued
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How does opulence among nations arise? Smith describes a Newtonian system of non violent market competition operating through the price …
Adam Smith Part 4 The Wealth of Nations -Introduction
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So how do you get from a subsistence economy where the great mass lives on the edge of famine and disaster? Funny you should ask, becau…
64. Adam Smith Pt.3; The Theory of Moral Sentiments; What kind of monkeys are we?
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Why do humans behave decently towards each other?
Adam Smith doesn't do evolutionary biology, but his insights, on how we wish to love a…
Adam Smith Part 2; Morality Unlike Ours
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Private Vices are public virtues, so says Mandeville in the Fable of the Bees. No, David Hume argues, the frame is wrong. Strong bounda…
62. Adam Smith Part 1; Einstein, Newton, God and Poverty
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Adam Smith and his world view. Emerson said every writer needs a tough chaos deep soil. What was Adam Smith’s? We introduce the key e…
61. 1688 The Glorious Revolution Part 2; Only the Fool is free
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We go through the history of the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Marlborough defects to William of Orange.
It’s a long episode because we sp…
1688; The Glorious Revolution; Setting the Table for a Feast
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The real lesson is don’t invade Norway.
Northern Europe is suffering from state breakdown or the consolidation of absolute monarchy. This…
59. Stuart Restoration Part 3; To Be a Phoenix; Memetic Disaster
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Memetic Disaster. The Bloody Assizes and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, convincingly play into the memes of Catholic cruelty fit…
58. Stuart Restoration Part 2, Social and Economic Issues
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We look at changes brought by the Restoration in social and economic terms. And we find there was also a lot of continuation from the Co…
57. Charles II, Stuart Restoration; They're B-A-A-A-A-CK
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The Stuart Restoration. The landed classes displace the middling sorts of the Cromwellian power structure. This is the first of three e…
56. Oliver Cromwell, Part 4, Scotland and Charles II
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The last campaign personally led by Oliver Cromwell.
The Saints against the Elect. It’s a crazy war, purges, persuasion and propaganda. …
55. Oliver Cromwell, Part 3, Ireland and Scotland
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The English Civil War seems to be over, the king is dead. We chopped the bloody man’s head off. But Charles II shows up in Scotland und…
54. Oliver Cromwell, Part 2
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This is the 2nd in the 4part Oliver Cromwell arc (though he has appeared as an important figure since episode 45)
This episode we look at …
53. Oliver Cromwell; God's Englishman
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Oliver Cromwell lived life on a different plane from most other people. He established a reputation that enabled him to put in place a c…
52. 1649, the Decisive Year
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This is the long promised Jonathon Scott episode. Featuring some real curve balls thrown at me by Joltin’ Joe.
This is a deep dive into s…
51. The Dutch Got their Beard Caught in the Mailbox
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Will you marry me?
That's what Cromwell asked the Dutch. A proposal! Just out of the blue. What did the Dutch think? Then they sent B…
50. Grindletonians, Ranters, Diggers and Quakers
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Diggers were early communists and Ranters feel like hippies. Do it in the road. It’s all good because it’s all god.
Quakers and Baptists…
49. Muggles, Ranters and Diggers
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What part of history did Rowling mine for ideas? This part.
Muggles, Grindletonians, Ranters, Diggers, Quakers, oh my.
This episode explo…
48. Commonwealth ; The Promise is given
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Honest administration of government? Getting there, we get rid of 90% of the corruption.
Cheap, abundant food. The Malthusian limits are…
47. 2nd English Civil War and Execution of Charles I
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A Second English Civil War and a 3rd Scots invasion? Are the royalists nuts? Aren't they tired of war?
The New Model Army still exists, …