Introduction to Historical Economic Growth

What you’ll learn to do: understand that economic growth is a relatively recent phenomenon and identify key institutional factors that contribute to economic growth

People helping each other up a mountain.

Earlier in this module we observed that economic growth involves a broad collection of societal changes, which lead to increasing living standards. In this section, we will explain a number of institutional factors that allow or inhibit a society’s economic growth.

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